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Employment Tribunals Service: Enforcement

Commons · Question 75499 · Tabled 5 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 11 Sep 2025

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Asked by Darren Paffey

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recourse is available in situations where an employment tribunal award has been made but cannot be enforced because the company is no longer trading and has not gone into formal insolvency.

Answer

Answered by Kate Dearden, 11 Sep 2025

In the absence of any formal insolvency proceedings, the Redundancy Payment Service, which is part of the Insolvency Service, can pay redundancy pay awarded by the Employment Tribunal to a former employee.It is unable to consider payment of any other elem...