Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 14 March 2022 to Question 136656 on Southeastern Trains: Cleaning Services, whether under the terms of the Service Contract between the Secretary of State, DOHL and SE Trains Ltd, he has given a mandate to the Directors of SE Trains Ltd in relation to Churchill’s pay arrangements.
The Department has not provided Southeastern with a mandate in relation to this dispute. Pay arrangements are a contractual issue between Churchill and its staff.