Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery Group

Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery Group

Identity
organisation:govuk:Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery Group — the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.
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Names in the records

Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.

As publishedRegisterTied byConfidenceRows
Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery GroupGOV.UK transparency returnsexact name within one register1.01

What the records establish

  • Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery Group: 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 4 July 2018.
All 1 recorded relationships. Kind: FACT — every row is a register's own record; nothing on this page is computed.
RelationshipWithDateAmountDetailRecord
recorded meeting with a ministerLord Grayling4 July 2018ministerial_meetings

What this does not establish

The records above establish that Paul Plummer, CEO, Rail Delivery Group Chris Burchell, Chair, Rail Delivery Group, Managing Director, UK Trains, Arriva Charlie Hodgson, MD, Rail Development, Go-Ahead Group Tim Shoveller, MD, UK Rail, Stagecoach Group Steve Montgomery, MD, First Rail Dominic Booth, MD, Abellio UK Ed Wilson, Head of Public Affairs, Rail Delivery Group and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.

Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.