Railways: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 10th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Office of Rail and Road has taken steps to ensure that Network Rail consults on its Modernising Maintenance programme.


Answered by
Huw Merriman Portrait
Huw Merriman
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th May 2023

Network Rail undertook thorough and meaningful consultation on its proposals to modernise the working practices in its maintenance function with its elected employee representatives between January and October 2022. In accordance with requirements, a separate detailed consultation on employee safety has also taken place with employee representatives, which remains on-going.

Network Rail’s Maintenance Modernisation programme is fully transparent to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and senior leaders across the organisation regularly engage with the ORR to keep it fully sighted.

The ORR attends the Network Rail Safety Validation panel that is working through the management of the change process that Network Rail is following.

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