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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress her Department has made on delivering a public information campaign alongside the introduction of the ban on commercial third-party sales of puppies and kittens in April 2020.
Answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019, known as ‘Lucy’s Law’, bans the commercial third party sales of puppies and kittens and will come into force in April 2020. We intend to launch a campaign focused on helping the public understand how to responsibly source a puppy or kitten in early 2020, in the run up to the ban coming into force. The campaign is currently under development.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2019 to Question 277855, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of Windows XP machines operating across the NHS that are unable to be updated.
Answered by Nadine Dorries
We estimate there are approximately 2,300 machines in the National Health Service currently still operating on Windows XP which is no longer supported by Microsoft. To be compliant with the mandatory Data Security and Protection Toolkit, NHS organisations must operate on supported systems or have plans in place to mitigate the risk such as segregating those machines from the network. There are valid reasons why some machines cannot be upgraded from Windows XP, primarily where they run essential locally developed clinical systems that cannot be upgraded or replaced.
We are supporting NHS organisations to upgrade their existing Microsoft Windows operating systems, allowing them to reduce potential vulnerabilities and increase cyber resilience.
We signed a multi-million pound contract with Microsoft in 2018 to support the NHS to upgrade their existing Microsoft Windows operating systems onto Windows 10.
All health and care organisations that have access to NHS patient data must annually complete NHS Digital’s Data Security and Protection Toolkit. This details the standards we expect them to adhere to and Data Security Standard 8 advocates that no unsupported operating systems, software or internet browsers are used within the IT estate.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2019 to Question 277852 on Hyperactivity: Diagnosis, whether his Department has a timeframe for the exploration of data that can be made accessible via the mental health dataset; and whether that data may include average waiting times for an ADHD diagnosis for (a) children and (b) adults.
Answered by Caroline Dinenage
Work to explore what national level data on services for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) could be made available, including what metrics may be identified, is ongoing. The scoping work is also considering timeframes for making ADHD data available.
The Government is committed to supporting people with ADHD to live healthy, independent lives and to participate in their communities. NHS Digital continues to work with the Department and NHS England on the development of access and waiting times reporting for mental health care pathways.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government press release New plans to make it safer for people to confirm their identity online, published 19 July 2019, under the proposals to allow organisations to digitally check identity using British passport data whether information will be held by the Government on the purpose of the verification sought.
Answered by Simon Hart - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip)
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.