Correspondence

P&O Ferries: staff redundancies

Letters regarding the circumstances by which P&O Ferries staff were made redundant on 17 March 2022.

• From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, The Insolvency Service, The Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng and Paul Scully
• Published: 18 March 2022
• Last updated: 1 April 2022 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Letter from Insolvency Service to Business Secretary (1 April 2022) on their investigation into P&O Ferries

PDF, 64.7 KB, 1 page

Letter from Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Labour Markets Minister Paul Scully to CEO of P&O Ferries 18 March 2022 following the redundancy of staff

PDF, 102 KB, 2 pages

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Letter from P&O Ferries to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng 22 March 2022

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Details

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Labour Markets Minister Paul Scully wrote to the CEO of P&O Ferries on 18 March 2022 requesting details of the circumstances by which staff were made redundant on 17 March so that government can establish whether any employment or redundancy laws have been broken.

Peter Hebblethwaite, CEO of P&O Ferries, responded by letter on 22 March.

Dean Beale, CEO Insolvency Service, wrote to the Business Secretary on 1 April about their investigation into the redundancies.

Published 18 March 2022
Last updated 1 April 2022 + show all updates

1. 1 April 2022

   Insolvency Service letter to Business Secretary added.

2. 22 March 2022

   P&O response added.

3. 18 March 2022

   First published.