6.16 Building on this the Government issued a Statement of Practice on Staff Transfers in the Public Sector as a guarantee of staff terms and conditions in January 2001 (see Box 6.1). This applies directly to PFI and PPPs in central government, as well as to other situations involving staff transfers, such as outsourcing. It is also intended to apply to the rest of the public sector, including local government. The Statement of Practice requires that the public sector should follow TUPE regulations, and that if, as a matter of law, TUPE does not apply, steps should be taken to ensure equivalent protection for workers' terms and conditions.
6.17 These measures mean in practice that workers transferring from the public to the private sector as a result of PFI will receive the same terms and conditions that they did before their transfer, along with a comparable pension - extending Fair Deal beyond central government.