WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 44579

Avanti West Coast: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will make an assessment of the impact of (a) unfilled station staff vacancies and (b) use of fixed-term contracts at Avanti West Coast-managed railway stations on (i) trends in the length

answeredDepartment for Transport

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
22 Apr 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Transport

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Votes on this topic

These Commons divisions share a topic label. The question did not necessarily lead to a vote.

Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department will make an assessment of the impact of (a) unfilled station staff vacancies and (b) use of fixed-term contracts at Avanti West Coast-managed railway stations on (i) trends in the length

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 22 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The Department expects all train operating companies to use reasonable endeavours to meet their obligations for regulated staffed ticket office opening hours under Schedule 17 of the Ticketing and Settlement Agreement. As such, we regularly review ticket ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Manchester Airport: Railways

16 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of rail (a) capacity and (b) performance of Manchester Airport Station.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

British Transport Police: Finance

19 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for the British Transport Police.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

British Transport Police: Stockport Station

2 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish the average response time for British Transport Police at Stockport station in each of the last five financial years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: Stockport

9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of driving tests in Stockport.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Heaton Chapel Station: Access

18 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to provide funding for step-free access at Heaton Chapel Station.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railway Stations: Greater Manchester

23 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the speed of the rollout of the Access for All scheme across (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Greater Manchester.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: Greater Manchester

23 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) frequency of Northern Rail services in (i) Stockport constituency and (ii) across Greater Manchester on Sundays.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Railways: Optical Fibres

1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy to extend Project?Reach to Stockport railway station.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Stockport Station: Public Lavatories

1 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with (a) Network Rail and (b) Avanti West Coast on the quality of public toilets at Stockport station.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Driving Tests: Stockport

8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 58271 on Driving Tests: Stockport, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the average waiting time at the Bredbury driving test centre.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Shipping: Conditions of Employment

13 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to introduce legislation to provide UK seafarers with equivalent (a) redundancy, (b) dismissal protections and (c) other employment rights to onshore workers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brinnington Station and Heaton Chapel Station: Ticket Offices

13 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of ticket office opening hours at (a) Brinnington Station and (b) Heaton Chapel Station.