Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact on passenger safety in the event that agency workers are brought in to replace striking transport workers.

With the change in the law on 21 July 2022, employment businesses can now provide agency workers to fill staffing gaps caused by industrial action. Any agency worker supplied by an employment business would need to be suitably qualified to perform the role.