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Avanti West Coast: Ticket Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether permission from her Department was required by Avanti West Coast to undertake its station rostering review.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
28 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether permission from her Department was required by Avanti West Coast to undertake its station rostering review.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Permission is not required to undertake a review of working practices made in the ordinary course of business. If potential staff rostering affected changes to ticket office opening hours, the train operator would need to follow the process of the Ticketi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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