Appeal to ministers after Jarvis job cuts

TRANSPORT Secretary Lord Adonis is being petitioned in an attempt to save around 1,100 jobs at Yorkshire rail network services group Jarvis.

Yorkshire Minister Rosie Winterton is also being asked to intervene after yesterday’s announcement which has hit jobs at the group’s head office in York.

Jobs will also go at Doncaster, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle and Peterborough.

A group of MPs have written to Lord Adonis to ask him to step him and help. 

Jarvis’s administrator Deloitte said that in the absence of further funding, it was not possible to continue trading three of the group’s companies.

A statement from Deloitte said only the facilities management part of the group will continue operating as normal.

Meanwhile, there has been “a significant amount of interest” in Jarvis Accommodation Services, Deloitte said.

Last week Nick Edwards, Neville Kahn, Phil Bowers and Ian Brown, all partners at accountancy firm Deloitte, were appointed as joint administrators of Jarvis and its subsidiary Jarvis Accommodation Services.

Network Rail has said that contingency plans are in place to ensure work that cannot be performed by Jarvis can still be carried out.