Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2021 to Question 176010 on Railways: Staff, for what reason he has no plans to publish the information held by his Department; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that decision on the diversity of the workforce.

As confirmed in my answer of 19 April 2021 to Question 176010, the information currently being held by the Department has only been obtained from Train Operating Companies that are on Emergency Recovery Measure Agreements and will be used for indicative analytical purposes. No agreements have been made with those companies to publish this information.

As advised in previous responses, the Government intends to publish a White Paper with details of its plan for rail reform shortly.