Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Network Rail staff have left employment with a discretionary payment in each of the last three years; and how much each payment was.

Network Rail does not make discretionary payments to leavers. Network Rail does, on occasion, make ‘special severance payments’. These are outside of the usual severance arrangements as part of settlement agreements. All ‘special severance payments’ are approved by HMT and information about these are published on the transparency section of Network Rail’s website, available at: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/transparency-and-ethics/transparency/datasets/