| Heading: |
Network Rail: Public Appointments |
| Question ID: |
1791219 |
| UIN: |
43253 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5234 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Laurence Turner
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| Asking Member handle: |
larry_turner
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@larry_turner
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress she has made on the appointment of a new Chair of Network Rail. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-07 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department plans to launch an open and fair recruitment to appoint a new permanent Chair of Network Rail and has appointed an Executive Search Agency to run the recruitment. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Comparable answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |