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	registered interest
	date	01/12/2021
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Retail Trade: Apprentices and Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of (a) people undertaking training and apprenticeships in the rail sector and (b) jobs available in that sector.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	85240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>No comparative estimate has been made of the number of people undertaking training and apprenticeships in the rail sector and jobs available across the entirety of the rail sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is committed to ensuring that the transport workforce better reflects our diverse society. On 7 February 2022 the Department published a Transport Labour Market and Skills Call for Views and Ideas, which asks for views on the future labour market and skills needs of the transport sector, including how we can do more to target and reduce the barriers to improving diversity, inclusion, and social mobility.</p><p> </p><p>The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail also sets out a commitment to empower rail’s people and the new body, Great British Railways (GBR) will work with the sector to develop a new sector wide workforce plan with a joined up cross-sector training and skills offer. This approach will support a consistent and sustainable approach in future recruitment practices.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 14/02/2022 14:39:59 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1461408

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Ticket Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any changes to the Ticketing and Settlement Agreement Ticket Office Guidance (a) have been and (b) will be subject to a full public consultation.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	197
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>The Ticketing and Settlement Agreement (TSA) Ticket Office Guidance is not subject to a public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 16/05/2022 11:18:50 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1461436

	registered interest
	date	10/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Network Rail: Social Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Network Rail has engaged consultancy services to provide surveillance and data collection on the social media activities of Network Rail workplace union representatives and wider Network Rail workforce.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>Network Rail has not engaged consultancy services to provide surveillance or data collection on the social media activities of Network Rail workplace union representatives or wider Network Rail workforce.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 16/05/2022 11:11:41 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1463997

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what savings he is requiring in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 from (i) each individual Train Operating Company and (ii) all Train Operating Companies in total; and whether in each case he is requiring a certain proportion of those savings to be found from salary costs.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	4543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4544 4545 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1463998

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Expenditure and Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the correspondence between his Department and Train Operating Companies on spending cuts and workforce reforms since the Autumn Statement on 27 October 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	4544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4545 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1463999

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what pay mandate he has set for the Train Operating Companies in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	4545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4546 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1464001

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Train Operating Companies will be permitted to individually negotiate pay settlements in the event of an industrial dispute.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	4546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4545 4547 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1464002

	registered interest
	date	18/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Strikes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations he has received on the impact of industrial action on the railways from (a) rail industry organisations and (b) devolved authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	4547
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Our railways are on financial life support. We have lost a quarter of our passengers and the Government has spent £16 billion during the pandemic, equivalent to nearly £600 per household, irrespective of whether they use the railways, to keep subsidising the railway. We need to make our railways fit for the future and want a fair deal for staff, passengers, and taxpayers so the railway does not take money away from other essential public services such as the NHS.</p><p> </p><p>Unions are threatening industrial action before talks have even begun. Strikes should be the last resort, not the first. They will stop customers choosing rail, and those passengers might never return, killing services and jobs. The RMT trade union are balloting 40,000 members from across England, Wales and Scotland for industrial action and we would expect the relevant devolved authorities to be engaging with the employers in affected areas.</p><p> </p><p>Train operating companies are the employers of rail staff, not the Government. They, therefore, individually negotiate with trade unions on matters such as pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a commercial relationship with train operators, and we maintain a public register of rail contracts available on the Government website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-register-of-rail-passenger-contracts</a>. This contains guidance on how to request information and what information we are unable to publish.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton grouped question UIN 4543 4544 4545 4546 question first answered 23/05/2022 11:29:46 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1491433

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Ticket Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the train operating companies on plans to close ticket offices.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	41983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has held no recent discussions directly with train operating companies about ticket offices.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2022 12:14:31 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1491434

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: Ticket Offices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when public consultations will be launched on ticket office closures by train operating companies; and when ticket office closures will commence.
	tabling member constituency	Gateshead
	tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
	uin	41984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has held no recent discussions directly with train operating companies about ticket offices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2022 12:16:28 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns