Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

731986

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when a decision will be made on the outstanding force majeure claims made by the Govia Thameslink Railway.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The Force Majeure claim for official and unofficial action by train crew on Southern is extremely large and complex. The Department are finalising the assessment of the claim and will be informing Govia Thameslink Railway in due course.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 06/07/2017 14:32:57 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

731994

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Train Operating Companies: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what remedial actions he may take in the event of a franchised train-operating company's force majeure claim for relief from benchmarked contractual payments being (a) not agreed and (b) agreed only in part by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>Under the terms of their contracts, train operating companies actual performance is measured by excluding anything caused by a Force Majeure Event. Force Majeure Events are by their very nature incidents which are outside an operators’ direct control, such as major infrastructure failures that result in a line blockage.</p><p> </p><p>Remedial actions are not specifically related to whether or not the Department accepts an operators force majeure claim but to whether an operator exceeds their Performance Benchmarks as set out in their respective contract.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 28/06/2017 14:45:57 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle