Question follow-through · 81340
Public Transport: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking increase legal protections against violence and abuse at work for public transport workers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 13 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking increase legal protections against violence and abuse at work for public transport workers.
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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20 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to ensuring that public transport workers feel safe and are safe at work. There is no place for abuse or assault of any worker. The Department for Transport is working with industry and the British Transport Police on the railw...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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