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Network Rail and Platform4: Trade Unions

Asked by Olivia BlakeLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 24 March 2026UIN 121019

The question

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.

Answered by Keir Mather

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 discussions intended shortly.

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