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.
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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/
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/.