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Northern Trains: Pay

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 21274, tabled on 20 June 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the average annual remuneration of train drivers on Northern in 2020-21.

Answered on

23 June 2022

Information relating to train drivers’ salary is managed and set by the individual Train Operating Companies in line with their annual budgets.

The Office for National Statistics report that median gross annual pay for train and tram drivers in the UK was approximately £59,000 in 2021.

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