Trade Union Act—what do the Tories call 'important public services'?

HEALTH:

• Ambulance services responding to calls made to an emergency telephone number
• A&E services in hospitals
• Services provided in high-dependency units and intensive care in hospitals
• Psychiatric services in hospitals that are required to prevent serious injury, serious illness or loss of life
• Obstetric and midwifery services in hospitals that are required to prevent serious injury, serious illness or loss of life
• Services provided in private hospitals or by private ambulances are exempt

FIRE:

• Services by firefighters and fire and rescue authority personnel provided to extinguish fires and protect life and property

BORDER SECURITY:

• Examinations of people arriving or leaving the UK
• Examinations of goods imported or exported from the UK
• Patrol of sea and other waters
• The collection and dissemination of intelligence by a Border Force officer for these purposes
• The direction and control by a Border Force officer of these functions

TRANSPORT:

• London bus services
• Passenger railway services, except where the service starts or ends outside Britain
• Civil air traffic control services
• Airport and port security services

EDUCATION:

• Teaching and other services at schools except fee-paying schools
• Teaching and other services at 16-19 academies
• Teaching and other services at a further education institution where services to people of compulsory school age are publicly funded
• These apply to the education of people under 17