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Written Question
Rail Review
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) dates of and (b) attendees at meetings held by Keith Williams as part of the Government Rail Review.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Yes; a list of Keith Williams’ meetings with key stakeholders will be published in due course.


Written Question
Railway Stations: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations are unstaffed.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Department for Transport does not hold this information. Train operating companies are responsible for station operations and are therefore best placed to determine the appropriate level of staffing for each station.


Written Question
Rail Review
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost to the public purse of the Williams Rail Review.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Williams Rail Review is funded from the Department for Transport’s existing budget. Neither Keith Williams nor the members of the Expert Challenge Panel are being paid.


Written Question
Railway Stations: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of railway stations staffed on a (a) full-time and (b) part-time basis.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Department for Transport does not hold this information. Train operating companies are responsible for station operations and are therefore best placed to determine the appropriate level of staffing for each station.


Written Question
Train Operating Companies: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish workforce data showing the (a) headcount and (b) the full-time equivalence of staffing levels of each train operating company.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Office of Rail and Road publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The Department does not publish any official statistics on Train operating companies’ workforce.

Total number of employees, 2018-19

Train Operating Company

Number of Employees

c2c

690

Caledonian Sleeper

174

Chiltern

852

CrossCountry

1,915

East Midlands Trains

2,460

Govia Thameslink Railway

7,276

Grand Central

193

Great Western Railway

6,343

Greater Anglia

3,103

Hull Trains

122

London North Eastern Railway

3,012

London Overground

1,451

Merseyrail

1,206

Northern

6,183

ScotRail

5,168

Southeastern

4,410

South Western Railway

5,177

TfL Rail

1,401

TfW Rail

2,293

Transpennine Express

1,258

Virgin Trains West Coast

3,724

West Midlands Trains

2,834

Additional years are available at the following link:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/compendia/toc-key-statistics/


Written Question
Rail Review
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government Rail Review, how much his Department (a) has paid Keith Williams and (b) plans to pay Keith Williams in total.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Keith Williams is not paid for his work on the Rail Review.


Written Question
Railway Stations: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average number of hours is that part-time staffed railway stations are staffed.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Department for Transport does not hold this information. Train operating companies are responsible for station operations and are therefore best placed to determine the appropriate level of staffing for each station.


Written Question
Train Operating Companies: Zero Hours Contracts
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people employed by (a) train operating companies and (b) outsourcing companies on zero-hours contracts.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Office of Rail and Road publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The Department does not publish any official statistics on Train operating companies’ workforce.


Written Question
Train Operating Companies: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the proportion of train operating companies’ workforce that is employed by outsourced companies.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Office of Rail and Road publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The Department does not publish any official statistics on Train operating companies’ workforce.

Total number of employees, 2018-19

Train Operating Company

Number of Employees

c2c

690

Caledonian Sleeper

174

Chiltern

852

CrossCountry

1,915

East Midlands Trains

2,460

Govia Thameslink Railway

7,276

Grand Central

193

Great Western Railway

6,343

Greater Anglia

3,103

Hull Trains

122

London North Eastern Railway

3,012

London Overground

1,451

Merseyrail

1,206

Northern

6,183

ScotRail

5,168

Southeastern

4,410

South Western Railway

5,177

TfL Rail

1,401

TfW Rail

2,293

Transpennine Express

1,258

Virgin Trains West Coast

3,724

West Midlands Trains

2,834

Additional years are available at the following link:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/compendia/toc-key-statistics/


Written Question
Railway Stations: Staff
Monday 9th September 2019

Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the data he used as part of a workforce planning session referred to by the Under Secretary of State for Transport in his oral evidence to the Transport Select Committee on 8 May on Train Operating Companies’ staffing levels at stations.

Answered by Chris Heaton-Harris - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Department does not publish any official statistics on train operating companies’ workforces. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish information on the total number of employees for each train operating company in Great Britain. The ORR’s website can be found at: https://orr.gov.uk/.