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The U.K. government’s new transport minister got an award-winning railway engineer sacked for speaking to the media about safety concerns at one of Britain’s busiest stations, POLITICO can reveal. In his previous role running government-owned infrastructure manager Network Rail, Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts from the man’s employer while urging disciplinary action — and asked officials to “deal with him.” Hendy was angered after the engineer, Gareth Dennis, told a journalist that overcrowding at London’s Euston station was “unsafe” because it could result in a crush — despite concern also having been voiced by the official rail regulator.

Following the earlier debate on 9th September in the House of Lords about Bus Franchising, David Walker, the Bishop of Manchester on the 12th September made a contribution together with his colleague, Lord Snape called Peter Snape from Labour. Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, the Minister of State (Department for Transport) called Peter Hendy submitted a response. Here is the link from all of the…

One of the debate themes in Parliament in the last ten days of July was a session called “HS2 – Question” on 23rd July. Jennifer Randerson, the Welsh Liberal Democrat and Member of the House of Lords opened the debate and answered by Peter Hendy, Labour MP, transport executive and the Minister of State for Rail. A number of people contributed including the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines. Here is…