Transparency update

Friday 18 Jan 2013

Transparency update

Region & Route:: National

Network Rail refreshed and expanded the data available on its website’s transparency portal today: www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

New categories are Network Rail’s:

Eleven life saving rules
Drugs and alcohol policy
Speak out policy
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy
Family friendly policy
Expenditure diagram

The updated data includes the following information categories:

Budget and costs of high-profile projects
Corporate hospitality policy
Code of business ethics
Key safety performance indicators
Executive directors’ business expenses
Non-executive directors’ business expenses
Expenditure on staff travel
Expenditure on hotels
Expenditure on information technology

New and updated is Network Rail’s data protection policy.

Last year Network Rail began to publish data about current and future road works for which it is responsible on an interactive website roadworks.org and opened up its data on real time train operations to enable web developers to create apps and services, free of charge.

Mark Farrow, Network Rail’s head of transparency said: “Network Rail continues to make more information publically available and these categories will grow. This makes us more accountable and is good for business.

“We remain receptive to any requests for further information that can help individuals or organisations greater understand our business.”

Contact information

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Network Rail national helpline
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We own, operate and develop Britain's railway infrastructure; that's 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. We run 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country's train operating companies.

Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK and over 600 freight trains run on the network. People depend on Britain's railway for their daily commute, to visit friends and loved ones and to get them home safe every day. Our role is to deliver a safe and reliable railway, so we carefully manage and deliver thousands of projects every year that form part of the multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan, to grow and expand the nation's railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced - a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years.

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