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78795

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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, when he last discussed Network Rail's punctuality performance in Control Period 4 2009-14 with (a) Network Rail, (b) the Association of Train Operating Companies and (c) other members of the Rail Delivery Group.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Secretary of State and Ministerial colleagues meet regularly with senior officials from all three organisations, and issues concerning punctuality during Control Period 4 were frequently discussed during the course of that period.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 22/07/2014 15:02:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78800

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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 discussions (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have had with the Office of Rail Regulation about the level of fine imposed on Network Rail for its punctuality performance in Control Period four 2009-14.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206433
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Office of Rail Regulation are an independent statutory body, with powers vested by Parliament in their board. As an independent regulator, the ORR operates within the framework set by UK and EU legislation and is accountable through Parliament and the courts.</p><p>As announced in 2012 (see <a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf</a> for details)</p><p> </p><p>[the] <em>ORR’s Board issued an order that a reasonable sum of £1.5 million would be returned to funders at the end of CP4 for every 0.1 percentage point below the sector regulated target that Network Rail achieved. We have reviewed the available evidence and concluded that Network Rail did not do everything reasonably practicable to achieve the 2013-14 PPM target in the Long Distance sector, and determined that a reasonable sum of £76.8 million would apply. We adjusted the figure to take account of factors which were beyond Network Rail’s reasonable control including extreme weather, and external factors such as suicides and cable theft. The final sum is £53.1 million</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers and Department officials were briefed by the ORR shortly before the issue of the 2012 order and the final decision on the amount payable, but were not party to either decision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DfT Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Office of Rail Regulation to discuss Network Rail’s performance. ORR is the independent economic regulator accountable to parliament and ORR’s board makes its regulatory decisions independently of government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 206436 206437 question first answered 22/07/2014 15:14:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78802

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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 discussions he had with the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) about the fine imposed on Network Rail for punctuality performance in Control Period four 2009-14 (CP4); and when he was informed that the ORR would be fining Network Rail for its punctuality performance in CP4.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Office of Rail Regulation are an independent statutory body, with powers vested by Parliament in their board. As an independent regulator, the ORR operates within the framework set by UK and EU legislation and is accountable through Parliament and the courts.</p><p>As announced in 2012 (see <a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf</a> for details)</p><p> </p><p>[the] <em>ORR’s Board issued an order that a reasonable sum of £1.5 million would be returned to funders at the end of CP4 for every 0.1 percentage point below the sector regulated target that Network Rail achieved. We have reviewed the available evidence and concluded that Network Rail did not do everything reasonably practicable to achieve the 2013-14 PPM target in the Long Distance sector, and determined that a reasonable sum of £76.8 million would apply. We adjusted the figure to take account of factors which were beyond Network Rail’s reasonable control including extreme weather, and external factors such as suicides and cable theft. The final sum is £53.1 million</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers and Department officials were briefed by the ORR shortly before the issue of the 2012 order and the final decision on the amount payable, but were not party to either decision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DfT Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Office of Rail Regulation to discuss Network Rail’s performance. ORR is the independent economic regulator accountable to parliament and ORR’s board makes its regulatory decisions independently of government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 206433 206437 question first answered 22/07/2014 15:14:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78803

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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 mitigating factors the Office of Rail Regulation took into account in its calculation on the fine imposed on Network Rail for punctuality performance in Control Period 4 2009-14.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Office of Rail Regulation are an independent statutory body, with powers vested by Parliament in their board. As an independent regulator, the ORR operates within the framework set by UK and EU legislation and is accountable through Parliament and the courts.</p><p>As announced in 2012 (see <a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf</a> for details)</p><p> </p><p>[the] <em>ORR’s Board issued an order that a reasonable sum of £1.5 million would be returned to funders at the end of CP4 for every 0.1 percentage point below the sector regulated target that Network Rail achieved. We have reviewed the available evidence and concluded that Network Rail did not do everything reasonably practicable to achieve the 2013-14 PPM target in the Long Distance sector, and determined that a reasonable sum of £76.8 million would apply. We adjusted the figure to take account of factors which were beyond Network Rail’s reasonable control including extreme weather, and external factors such as suicides and cable theft. The final sum is £53.1 million</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers and Department officials were briefed by the ORR shortly before the issue of the 2012 order and the final decision on the amount payable, but were not party to either decision.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>DfT Ministers and officials regularly meet with the Office of Rail Regulation to discuss Network Rail’s performance. ORR is the independent economic regulator accountable to parliament and ORR’s board makes its regulatory decisions independently of government.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 206433 206436 question first answered 22/07/2014 15:14:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78799

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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 criteria are used to establish whether delays over five minutes to a timetabled long distance train service are caused by (a) Network Rail, (b) the train operating company or (c) other factors; and what changes have been made to those criteria since January 2008.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206434
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /><p>The criteria for establishing delay causes are to be found in the Delay Attribution Guide, issued by the Delay Attribution Board – a joint rail industry body remitted to provide guidance to the industry on delay attribution issues.</p><p>The current guide was issued in April 2014. Copies of the all the guides since 2007 can be seen at:</p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/delayattributionguides.htm" target="_blank">http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/delayattributionguides.htm</a></p><p>The Department does not make estimates with regard to the attribution of delay in respect of the annual number of timetabled passenger train services that arrived, either within 5 minutes or not, of their scheduled arrival time.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The industry uses the Delay Attribution Guide to attribute delays by total minutes of delay, not by number of trains. The Office of Rail Regulation is beginning to publish such information; see</p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf</a> (page11) for the 2013-14 figures as to how industry delay was apportioned for each operator and nationally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 206435 question first answered 22/07/2014 15:18:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78801

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	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 his most recent estimate is of the annual number of timetabled passenger train services that arrived (a) within five minutes of and (b) five minutes or more after the scheduled time due to factors attributable to the franchised train operating company in each year since 2004.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p /><p>The criteria for establishing delay causes are to be found in the Delay Attribution Guide, issued by the Delay Attribution Board – a joint rail industry body remitted to provide guidance to the industry on delay attribution issues.</p><p>The current guide was issued in April 2014. Copies of the all the guides since 2007 can be seen at:</p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/delayattributionguides.htm" target="_blank">http://www.delayattributionboard.co.uk/delayattributionguides.htm</a></p><p>The Department does not make estimates with regard to the attribution of delay in respect of the annual number of timetabled passenger train services that arrived, either within 5 minutes or not, of their scheduled arrival time.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>The industry uses the Delay Attribution Guide to attribute delays by total minutes of delay, not by number of trains. The Office of Rail Regulation is beginning to publish such information; see</p><p /> <p> </p><p><a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/13792/network-rail-monitor-2013-14-q4.pdf</a> (page11) for the 2013-14 figures as to how industry delay was apportioned for each operator and nationally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 206434 question first answered 22/07/2014 15:18:14 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

78794

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railways: WiFi
	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 annual private investment in (a) on train wif-fi services and (b) track side wi-fi infrastructure in each year of Control Period 5 2015 to 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
	uin	206431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department has not made any estimates for this type of investment.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/09/2014 13:45:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris