Network Rail
Transparency
Challenge Panel
First Meeting
Date 00.00.00
1
Agenda
15.00 Welcome & Introductions
15.10 Background to transparency at Network Rail
15.30 Panel terms of reference
15.45 Our transparency programme so far
16.00 Perceptions of Network Rail’s transparency
16.15 Challenging our transparency strategy
16.55 Next meeting & any other business
Panel members
• Chaired by Mark Farrow - Head of Transparency, Ethics & Data Protection,
Network Rail
• Suzanne Wise - Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Network Rail
• Sim Harris – Managing Editor, Rail News
• Nick Illsley – CEO, Transport Direct, Department for Transport
• Oliver Morgans – Transparency Lead, Financial Conduct Authority
• David Sidebottom – Passenger Team Director, Passenger Focus represented
by Sharon Hedges - Passenger Issues Manager
• Rory Sutherland – Executive Creative Director and Vice Chairman, Ogilvy One
London
• Emma Thwaites – Communications Associate, Open Data Institute
• Peter van Veen – Director of Business Integrity, Transparency International
Apologies
• Richard Thomas – member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and
former Information Commissioner
• Heidi Mottram – CEO, Northumbrian Water and former MD, Northern Rail
Background to
transparency
Panel terms of
reference
Section number to go here
Proposed panel terms of reference
• To challenge Network Rail’s transparency proposals and plans
and our progress in delivering them
• To improve links between our transparency programme and
related initiatives elsewhere
• To identify and share best practice in transparency and other
areas to help us improve our programme and take advantage of
new opportunities
• To help us identify and track key transparency benefits and
success factors
Our programme
so far
Our transparency vision
“To be a company respected for our
openness, honesty and accessibility.”
Totemic?
What does “transparency” mean?
Other considerations
• Activity elsewhere – public & corporate sectors
• Prevailing Network Rail culture and appetite for doing different
• External demand
• Availability of key information & data internally
• Compliance or proactivity?
Proactive publication
Open data
The wider industry
Key future challenges
• Keeping our proactive publication relevant & interesting
• Broadening our open data offering
• Actively engaging with those who choose to contact us
• Defining & embedding a transparent culture
• Joined up industry transparency
• Measuring success
Perceptions of our
transparency
Perceptions of Network Rail’s
transparency
• How can we have an impact on the general public’s view of us?
And how can we actively engage them?
• How do we give the communication teams at Network Rail the
substance they need to enable clearer/better communications
our stakeholders want?
• How can we demonstrate now the long term benefits of being
transparent to the company?
Challenging our
strategy
Key questions
• Is the focus of the strategy right?
• Have we missed anything?
• How best can we “embed” transparency in Network Rail?
• How can we maximise impact and benefits outside the
company?
• To what extent would you expect the rail industry to join up its
various transparency initiatives?
Any other
business