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Network Rail and Platform4: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the derecognition of trade unions in the recent TUPE transfer of workers from Network Rail into Platform 4.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
18 Mar 2026
Answer
24 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the derecognition of trade unions in the recent TUPE transfer of workers from Network Rail into Platform 4.

  2. 18 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 24 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Platform 4 is now the employer following a TUPE process. While trade union recognition agreements were not transferred from Network Rail to Platform 4 under TUPE, Platform 4 has held discussions with the trade unions about recognition, with further discus...

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