Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway)
Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway)
- Identity
organisation:govuk:Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway)— the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.- Graph built
- 5 September 2026
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 published | Register | Tied by | Confidence | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway) | GOV.UK transparency returns | exact name within one register | 1.0 | 1 |
What the records establish
- Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway): 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 15 October 2018.
| Relationship | With | Date | Amount | Detail | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| recorded meeting with a minister | Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 15 October 2018 | — | ministerial_meetings |
What this does not establish
The records above establish that Andy Thomas (Route Managing Director � Network Rail), Gary Cooper (Director Planning, Engineering and Operations � Rail Delivery Group), Graham Richards (Director Planning and Performance � Office of Rail and Road), and Mark Hopwood (Managing Director � Great Western Railway) 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.