Teresa Pearce – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Teresa Pearce on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many railway stations are (a) staffed and (b) unstaffed.

Claire Perry

The Department for Transport does not collect this information as station staffing is a matter for operators. They are not required to inform us of which stations are staffed beyond the obligations as set out in the Ticketing and Settlement Agreement.

We regulate Ticket Office opening times through the Ticketing and Settlement Agreement and a list of which stations have open ticket offices by operator can be seen at http://www.atoc.org/about-atoc/rail-settlement-plan/governance/ (Schedule 17 July 2015).

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