Departments: Redundancy

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many redundancies there were from his Department in (a) 2002-03 and (b) 2006-07; and what the total amount was of compensation payments made in each year.

John Healey
There were no redundancies in the Treasury in 2002-03. The data for 2006-07 are as follows. The costs of compulsory early severance or early retirement are determined according to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.

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|£                     |
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|Number of redundancies|Cost|
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|3                     |462,439|
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