Member

96: Clause 15, page 9, line 11, at end insert— “(2A) The rail strategy must include a workforce pay and productivity policy for Great British Railways and GBR companies.(2B) The policy must provide that Great British Railways and a GBR company must not agree to or implement a general pay increase unless the increase is accompanied by material and measurable improvements in productivity or operating efficiency which are proportionate to the cost of the increase.(2C) Great British Railways and each GBR company must act in accordance with the workforce pay and productivity policy.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment would require the Secretary of State’s long-term rail strategy to include a workforce pay and productivity policy under which general pay increases for employees of Great British Railways and GBR companies must be linked to material and measurable improvements in productivity or operating efficiency.