The stages of a redundancy process will depend on the type of business, reasons for redundancy, and numbers involved. If 20+ redundancies special collective consultation rules apply and the decision to make redundancies must be notified to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. There would then follow, a process of organise the election of employee representatives would be consulted for minimums of 30 to 45 days depending on the numbers of staff involved, along with some individual consultation before redundancies are declared. For less than 20 staff affected, there are no set timescales but a requirement for meaningful consultation. Typically this can include inviting volunteers and consulting on ways to avoid redundancies, and proposed selection criteria, application of those criteria, and then, for those selected, consideration of any potentially suitable alternative roles available.