Departmental Retirement

Lynne Featherstone
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green of 14 July 2008, Official Report, columns 193-4W, on departmental retirement, how many requests to work beyond the mandatory retirement age were received by his Department in each of the last four years.

Mr. Bradshaw
The number of requests to work beyond the mandatory retirement age received by the Department in each of the last four years are given in the following table:

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|       |Number|
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|2007-08|0     |
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|2006-07|0     |
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|2005-06|1     |
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|2004-05|0     |
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