Transfer of public health team was a TUPE transfer

 Reg. 7(1) of the TUPE Regulations [1] provides: 

“(1) Where either before or after a relevant transfer, any employee of the transferor or transferee is dismissed, that employee shall be treated for the purposes of Part X of the 1996 Act (unfair dismissal) as unfairly dismissed if the sole or principal reason for his dismissal is - 

(a) the transfer itself; or