Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 121019

Network Rail and Platform4: Trade Unions

Tabled: 16 March 2026
Answered: 24 March 2026

Question

Olivia Blake

LabourSheffield Hallam

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the derecognition of trade unions in the recent TUPE transfer of workers from Network Rail into Platform 4.

Answer

Keir Mather
Platform 4 is now the employer following a TUPE process. While trade union recognition agreements were not transferred from Network Rail to Platform 4 under TUPE, Platform 4 has held discussions with the trade unions about recognition, with further discus...

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