Railways

(asked on 16th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the report by the Department of Transport Great British Railways: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, published on 20 May, in respect of the UK’s railways over the past decade, how much have wages increased; how much inflation has occurred; and what was the increase in (1) passenger numbers, (2) passenger kilometres, and (3) freight kilometres.


Answered by
Baroness Vere of Norbiton Portrait
Baroness Vere of Norbiton
Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 30th June 2021

UK rail wage figures are available by sector. The table below provides the median wage increase for the period 2010 to 2020:

Rail Construction and Maintenance Operatives

Rail Transport Operatives

Rail Travel Assistants

Train and Tram Drivers

13%

51%

39%

35%

During this period, prices increased (as measured by retail price index) by 31.1%.

ORR publish statistics on passenger journeys and kilometres. In the decade 2009/10 to 2019/20 (prior to the coronavirus pandemic) passenger journeys increased by 29% and passenger kilometres increased by 23%. In the last year (since government measures were introduced to minimise coronavirus impact) passenger journeys and kilometres have decreased by 78% and 81% respectively compared to the previous year.

Freight kilometres for the period 2010/11 to 2020/21 decreased by 23%. Please see attached documents for supporting tables.

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