Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 9608

Railways: Conditions of Employment

Tabled: 16 October 2024
Answered: 25 October 2024

Question

Josh Simons

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To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the contractual regime for Sunday working for train conductors in the North West; and what steps she plans to take to ensure that Sunday services ar

Answer

Simon Lightwood
Sundays currently fall outside of the working week for 95 per cent of Northern’s conductors in the North-West, making the service reliant on staff volunteering to work their days off. This is a key contributing factor to the unacceptably high levels of ca...

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