Ben Howlett – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ben Howlett on 2015-11-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the value of economic output lost as a result of industrial action in the transport sector in each of the last three years.

Mr Robert Goodwill

Industrial action in the transport sector has significant and serious disruptive impacts to the country. Indicative analysis undertaken by the Department for Transport to understand the potential immediate costs to the wider economy from a one-off 24 hour National Rail Strike estimated those costs to be around £80million.