A major union may call industrial action over HP's outsourcing of 200 government IT support jobs from UK sites to Bangalore in India.

The affected workers, at sites in Lytham St Annes, Newcastle and Sheffield, provide IT support to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). On Friday, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said it was considering the industrial action in response to HP's intended transfer of the positions overseas. However, HP insisted that the workers would most likely be redeployed into other roles.