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524287

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department plans to decide which stations will be affected by Network Rail's decision to defer Access to All works from Control Period 5 into Control Period 6; and how the outcome of that decision will be published.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	40118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>We will be responding to the Hendy Report later this year. In the meantime, we are working with Network Rail to identify how Access for All projects will be delivered and when. The decision about Access for All schemes will be made later this summer. These will be set out in updated versions of the Enhancement Delivery Plans currently available Network Rail’s website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/06/2016 10:26:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

524288

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations his Department has received on the recommendation of Sir Peter Hendy's report published in November 2015, on replanning of Network Rail's Investment Programme to defer Access to All works from Control Period 5 to Control Period 6.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	40119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Over one hundred responses have been received to my Department’s consultation on the recommendations of Sir Peter Hendy’s report, a number of which reference Access for All works. My Department is committed to publishing a report summarising these responses and decisions made in light of them later this year.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the consultation my Department has received letters from a wide range of stakeholders discussing a variety of Access for All subjects, a number of whom Ministers and officials have also met.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 14/06/2016 12:17:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

487109

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on whether Passenger Service Performance by the TSGN has exceeded the Default Performance Level for any benchmark for any (a) three consecutive reporting periods, (b) four reporting periods within a period of 13 consecutive reporting periods or (c) any five reporting periods within a period of 26 consecutive reporting periods except in relation to any reporting periods falling within a no breach reporting period.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	32502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department receives information on each franchised operators’ performance against respective benchmarks every four weeks. Delays and Peak Short formations have not exceeded the Default Performance level as defined in the Franchise Agreement. However, GTR exceeded the breach performance level for cancellations last year and the Secretary of State issued Govia Thameslink Railway with a Remedial Plan Notice requiring them to set out the measures they will take in order to improve performance. Subsequently, the Secretary of State has accepted the Remedial Plan that sets out the steps the operator is taking to improve their performance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/04/2016 11:24:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

447291

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Franchises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in what circumstances his Department can terminate the (a) Southern, (b) Thameslink and (c) GTR contracts early.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	23811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2016 answer text <p>Whilst Southern and Thameslink are used as operating names by the franchisee, they are in fact part of the GTR franchise, which operates the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) Franchise.</p><p>Schedule 10.2 of the TSGN Franchise Agreement (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488198/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/488198/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf</a> p.506) specifies how this franchise can be terminated by the Department.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 29/01/2016 12:46:00 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

444754

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Compensation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what requests for information his Department made regarding the cutting to 15 minutes the length of delay after which compensation for train passengers will kick in.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	22351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>In our manifesto we committed to improve compensation for delayed rail passengers and the Spending Review reiterated this. We have already changed the system to get compensation paid in cash, not travel vouchers, and we are putting new compensation obligations like automatic delay/repay into future franchise specifications.</p><br /><p>We will negotiate hard with rail operators to get even better compensation arrangements for passengers and are considering options on this at the moment.</p><br /> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/01/2016 15:29:46 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake