questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the final 2025–26 departmental pay settlement was not applied to staff who left the Department under the Voluntary Exit Scheme after being employed on the date from which the pay award was due to take effect but before the settlement was finalised; whether he has considered providing retrospective payment to those former employees; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of that decision on redundancy compensation and pension calculations.
answerText: The 2025/26 pay award reflected an exceptional pay flexibility agreement, reached following negotiations with the recognised Trade Unions and approved within the Civil Service pay framework. The award was based on clearly defined criteria that targeted in...
heading: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Redundancy Pay