Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department allows Departmental trade unions to host presentations on induction courses in his Department's central offices.
Departmental policy, set out in the Staff Handbook, is to allow the departmental trade unions to be represented at induction meetings for new entrants.
The induction pack for new entrants includes the wording:
“The department encourages you to join an officially recognised Trade Union and to play an active part within it to ensure your views are represented. It is, of course a personal decision whether or not you do join a Trade Union.”