Armed Forces: Redundancy

Debate between Lord Astor of Hever and Earl Ferrers

Wednesday 2nd March 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Astor of Hever]

My Lords, it depends on who comes forward for voluntary redundancy. At this stage, it is too early to be able to answer that question.

[Earl Ferrers]

My Lords, will my noble friend be kind enough to revisit the answer he gave to the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Boyce? His question, as I understood it, was: will the redundancy payments that are being offered to these people be meaner than those offered to people made redundant previously? I do not think that my noble friend answered that.

[Lord Astor of Hever]

My Lords, it is a question of how one defines “meaner”. As I tried to say in my answer, we in the department think that these are fair amounts.