Question follow-through · 22693
Avanti West Coast: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to resolve the strike action by the RMT on Avanti West Coast.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to resolve the strike action by the RMT on Avanti West Coast.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Secretary of State expects the operator and RMT to do everything they can to avoid further industrial action, and to minimise disruption to passengers in the meantime.As part of our plans to reform the railways, we are determined to move towards a sev...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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