Question follow-through · 91816
Railways: Strikes
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds information on the number of railway strike days, broken down by year; and what is the first year for which such records are held.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department holds information on the number of railway strike days, broken down by year; and what is the first year for which such records are held.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2025
Answer published
Published Office of Rail and Road data reports that there were 52 national strike days between April 2022 and March 2024.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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