Tusker is poised to offer a car salary sacrifice scheme across the public sector, managing director David Hosking says.

This is because North Yorkshire County Council chose to structure its deal with Tusker as a framework arrangement that any public sector body can use.

Hosking says: “North Yorkshire was keen to allow other public sector organisations to leverage off their experience and work.

“They can utilise the scheme without the huge expense of going through an identical tender process.”
North Yorkshire has some 15,000 staff eligible for the scheme, which went live in April and has so far provided 250 cars.

Cars chosen have to emit less than 120 grammes per kilometre of CO₂ but apart from that can be of any type. Tusker’s website shows the costs of different options.

“We offer three years of cover for service, breakdown, road fund licence and insurance within that cost,” Hosking says.

“Employers know cars that may be used on their business are properly insured and roadworthy.”
Stockton-on-Tees in August became the first body to use the framework, and Tusker is “in talks with a dozen or more councils”, Hosking says.

North Yorkshire’s benefits and reward consultant John Robinson, who negotiated the agreement, says take–up depends on how many public sector bodies adopt the scheme, “but it is likely to be numbered in the thousands”.

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