Department for Work and Pensions: Location

(asked on 20th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Written Statement of 18 March 2022, HCWS700 and the statement relating to no plans to reduce headcount, what discussions she has had with contractors that employ ancillary and facilities management staff on the affected sites about measures to avoid reductions of staff employed by those companies.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

As part of the Workplace Transformation an assessment will be made for each individual site. Should this indicate any supplier staff reductions, our contractors have advised they would seek to redeploy across the network of their respective organisations first and seek to mitigate against any impact.

The Department is fully compliant in its duties under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. To understand the potential impact of changes to our estate, both for DWP employees and people using its services, Equality Analyses have been carried out for sites planned to close or relocate. The Equality Analyses do not cover colleagues who are not employed directly by DWP.

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