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1121733

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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, when the requirement was for companies to cover pension costs as part of the franchising arrangements was first introduced.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	245609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Railways Pension Scheme was established in 1994, replacing the previous British Rail scheme. Contributions in to the Railways Pension Scheme are split according to a shared cost arrangement, whereby employers (the Train Operating Companies) pay 60% and employees pay the remaining 40%. Since franchising arrangements were first introduced Train Operating Companies have been, and continue to be, responsible for paying employer pension contributions during a franchise term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/04/2019 11:35:04 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1121756

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	South Eastern Rail Franchise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures will be included in the forthcoming Southeastern franchise agreement for the successful franchisee to ensure that as few services as possible are run with short formations.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Tom Tugendhat
uin	245858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>The forthcoming South Eastern franchise agreement includes a Short Formation regime in Schedule 7.1 where there is a financial incentive to ensure the franchisee meets the train formations agreed, which varies depending on the level of failure. Any income from this regime has to be invested in the franchise. In addition, poor performance in this area can be regarded as a breach in terms of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/04/2019 10:01:34 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat

1121778

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of train passengers when train guards are removed.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	245851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>Whilst decisions on staffing are for individual operators, the Government has been clear that it wants to see more staff on our railway, not fewer, and it is not aware of any plans by franchised operators to remove guards from train services.</p><p> </p><p>With respect to the mode of train operation and guards, the ORR, the independent rail regulator, and the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) have found that Driver Controlled Operation (DCO), where the train driver has responsibility for opening and closing the doors and dispatching the train from a station but a guard / second crew member continues to be rostered on the train, is safe.</p><p> </p><p>An RSSB report also concluded that the introduction of DCO according to the standard safety management requirements that all rail companies routinely meet does not increase any other passenger safety risks and furthermore that cancelling a DCO train in the absence of its guard / second crew member is more risky than running it with only its driver.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/04/2019 13:16:52 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

1121779

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of staffing reductions on levels of reported crime on trains.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	245852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department works with the British Transport Police (BTP) to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour on the railways in Great Britain. Under their franchise agreements, Train Operating Companies are required to work with the BTP to manage and reduce railway crime. British Transport Police officer numbers have remained relatively stable on the network over the last five years and are currently (2017/18) nearly 3,100 by comparison to just over 2,900 in 2009/10.</p><p>With growing passenger numbers, the Department has been clear that it wants to see more train operating company customer-facing staff on the railways, not fewer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The BTP keeps records of crime reported on the railways. Crime figures should be considered in the context of rising passenger numbers, with crimes per million passenger journeys remaining relatively low and having decreased overall between 2014 and 2017.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to factors influencing the levels of report crime on trains, the BTP has run a number of successful initiatives in recent years to encourage more reporting of crimes, which is likely to be a factor in the numbers of crimes reported. For example, BTP has a popular dedicated crime reporting text service - ‘61016’ – which allows people to report offences to the police easily and discreetly.</p><p> </p><p>The levels of crime that are seen on the railway broadly mirror those seen across society as a whole, as recorded by the territorial police forces.</p><p> </p><p>A recent report by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) concluded that driver controlled train operation by comparison with conductor operation does not increase passenger safety risks.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/04/2019 13:31:44 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

1121784

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to improve rural train lines and services in the North West.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	245856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Northern and TransPennine Express franchises will transform rail services across the north. Rural lines in the north west will benefit from the removal of all Pacer trains, and all trains operating will either be new or fully refurbished. Stations in the region are also benefitting from some of the £55m investment by both franchises in improving facilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/04/2019 11:20:05 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1121785

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of rail passenger numbers in the North West in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	245857
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2019 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road publishes annual statistics on regional rail usage. The number of rail journeys made to/from and within the North West region in each of the last 20 years is presented below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Rail journeys to, from and within the North West: from 1997-98</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Journeys (thousands)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997-98</p></td><td><p>49,199</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998-99</p></td><td><p>50,009</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999-00</p></td><td><p>52,882</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000-01</p></td><td><p>51,924</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-02</p></td><td><p>51,730</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002-03</p></td><td><p>51,022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003-04</p></td><td><p>55,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004-05</p></td><td><p>58,678</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-06</p></td><td><p>64,044</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-07</p></td><td><p>67,167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>71,663</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09 (*)</p></td><td><p>105,819</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>106,098</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>111,556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>115,182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>113,921</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>121,741</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>124,878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>128,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>133,966</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>134,420</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Office of Rail and Road</p><p> </p><p>(*) Methodological changes have improved these statistics over time. Most notably from 2008-09, new estimates of rail travel in passenger transport executives (PTEs) areas were included in the dataset for the first time, providing a more complete representation of rail passenger journeys.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 25/04/2019 11:31:19 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1121886

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
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 progress his Department has made on the introduction of an automated delay repay compensation scheme that is interoperable across train operating companies.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	245899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>The Department requires operators of new franchises to provide automated Delay Repay compensation processes that make claiming swift and simple and is working with the rail industry and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) to deliver more automated claims processes across all DfT-let franchises. The Delay Repay compensation scheme has now been rolled out to all but one of these franchises. Since announcing ‘one-click’ compensation in October 2018, the Government has also introduced a requirement for new franchises to introduce simple one-click automated claims systems, available via smartphones and smartcard registration, to make it easier for passengers to claim compensation when they have suffered delays.</p><p> </p><p>In practice, train operating companies work with one another to ensure that the Delay Repay compensation scheme works in an interoperable way between franchises. For example, if a passenger submits their claim for compensation to an operator other than the one responsible for the delay, then the operator receiving the claim should forward this to the one that was responsible for the delay and advise the passenger that they have done this.</p><p> </p><p>We can advise that South Western Railway (SWR)’s compensation offering was improved earlier this month with the announcement of Automated Delay Repay, which is a new simpler way of claiming compensation for Season ticket holders using SWR Touch smartcards and for holders of Advance tickets purchased through SWR’s website:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.southwesternrailway.com/contact-and-help/refunds-and-compensation/automated-delay-repay" target="_blank">https://www.southwesternrailway.com/contact-and-help/refunds-and-compensation/automated-delay-repay</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/04/2019 10:08:36 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1121941

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of scoring is given to (a) developing skills, (b) education and employment opportunities and (c) promoting supply chain opportunities through the supply and maintenance in rolling stock contracts that have to comply under the Utilities Contract Regulations.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	245683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>It is a matter for train operators or other contracting bodies, in awarding their own rolling stock contracts, to ensure they are compliant with any applicable procurement legislation and to set relevant evaluation criteria. Where the Government has led procurements of new trains in the past these have been run in accordance with statutory procurement rules.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/04/2019 09:41:23 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1121942

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in reference to the Answers of 10 April 2019 to Question 239910 and Question 239906 on Rolling Stock: Procurement, what statutory provisions are in place to ensure that train operators deliver the greatest benefit for the UK economy when awarding rolling stock contracts.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	245684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>It is a matter for train operators, in awarding their own rolling stock contracts, to ensure they are compliant with any applicable procurement legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Where the Government has led procurements of new trains, such as IEP and Thameslink, these have been run in accordance with statutory procurement rules.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/04/2019 09:46:57 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1121953

registered interest
date	18/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 10 April 2019 to Question 239910 and Question 239906 on Rolling Stock: Procurement, for what reason his Department's public procurement policy differs from Government strategy in other departments in relation to the (a) Industrial Strategy, (b) National Shipbuilding Strategy, (c) Transforming Infrastructure Performance programme and (d) Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	245688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2019 answer text <p>It is a matter for train operators, in awarding their own rolling stock contracts, to undertake procurement in line with their own commercial strategies. Where the Government has led procurements of new trains, such as IEP and Thameslink, these have been run in accordance with statutory procurement rules.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 26/04/2019 09:53:15 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones