Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff employed at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency office in Preston were made redundant when it closed; and what the total cost was of those redundancies.
When the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency’s local office in Preston closed, 45 members of staff volunteered to take a redundancy package. The total cost of those redundancies was £910,687.44. There were no compulsory redundancies.