PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Transport: Departmental Responsibilities (23 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish his Department's updated organisation chart; if he will update his Department's Ministerial transparency data series for the period since March 2014; and if he will encourage Network Rail and the Office of Rail and Road to publish their Board minutes no later than three months after those meetings occur.

Asked by:
Lilian Greenwood (Labour)

In order to reduce costs, we no longer publish a printed version of the Department for Transport organisational chart. We publish an online version at www.gov.uk.　Following the General Election this is currently being updated and will be available by the end of July.

We are planning to publish Q3 and Q4 2014/2015 transparency data by mid-July and currently working on the timetable for 2015/2016.

As a regulator independent of government, the Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) arrangements for publication of its Board minutes are a matter for the ORR Board.　 Network Rail is an arm’s-length public sector body and its arrangements for the publication of the minutes of its Board meetings remain operational matters for the company.　 However, I understand that both bodies advise that they aim to publish their Board minutes within three months.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
29 June 2015