Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral answer to the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun of 19 January, Official Report column 521, to which (a) railway unions and (b) other stakeholders his Department has written on the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill.

For the introduction of the Bill by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy there was engagement with stakeholders. Following the introduction of the Bill, the Department wrote to stakeholders to update them and explain the Bill and as part of the forthcoming consultation, the railway trade unions, employers and other stakeholders will be consulted.