Ruth Smeeth – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ruth Smeeth on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many lawyers are employed by Network Rail to deal with contractual interface issues.

Claire Perry

Network Rail has 26 lawyers in the company. None are employed full time to deal specifically with these types of contractual interface issues. Those in the Routes Legal Team (c 12 lawyers) will spend a percentage of their time on these issues and to a lesser extent those in the Corporate Legal Team (c 3 lawyers).Input from the team will vary considerably depending on the nature and size of the issue that has arisen.