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525043

registered interest
date	14/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of trains (a) cancelled and (b) delayed have not seen Govia Thameslink Railway financially penalised in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Under their Franchise Agreements, an operator is entitled to claim relief from their cancellations benchmark where they can demonstrate that their action was taken in order to recover the service following disruption. Additionally, an operator may also claim relief from cancellations and delay benchmarks for incidents subject to Force Majeure.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) franchise started in September 2014, no more than 18% of cancellations that GTR were responsible for and which count towards their benchmarks were accepted as Service Recovery or Force Majeure. In that time, 0.6% of delays were accepted as Force Majeure. These delays and cancellations will not count towards the Schedule 7.1 performance regime contained in the Franchise Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Track Access Agreement between Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway includes performance regimes in relation to cancellations and delays which result in an incentive or penalty payment depending on who caused the delay or cancellation of the services, and how each organisation is performing against their own benchmark. All trains which are timetabled to operate in passenger service are subject to this performance regime.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 12:35:07 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

525060

registered interest
date	14/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, under what circumstances financial penalties could be levied against Govia Thameslink Railway for (a) punctuality problems and (b) cancellations.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40638
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Govia Thameslink Railway Franchise Agreement in Schedule 7.1 sets out the performance benchmarks and financial regime that is in place in relation to cancellations and TOC delay minute regimes. A copy of the Franchise Agreement can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/govia-thameslink" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/govia-thameslink</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 10:47:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

525061

registered interest
date	14/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse has been of Network Rail paying fines to Govia Thameslink Railway under the Track Access Agreement in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The available data for the last three years for Network Rail payments to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) under the Track Access Agreement (TAA) is available at <a href="http://www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency/datasets/" target="_blank">http://www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency/datasets/</a>. This details Schedule 4 payments which relate to agreed disruption caused by planned work; and Schedule 8 payments which relate to non-planned disruption.</p><p>The net Schedule 8 payment agreed with individual operators is arrived at through a process of attribution of delays where many factors are taken into consideration and compensation amounts are incurred both ways.</p><p> </p><p>GTR’s provision of services for the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise only began on 14 September 2014, with Southern services included from 26 July 2015, and so will not be included in the 2014/15 figure available at <a href="http://www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency/datasets/" target="_blank">http://www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency/datasets/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 11:47:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

524824

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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, how much revenue Govia Thameslink Railway has paid to the Government since taking up its franchise in 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Passenger Income by Train Operating Company is published annually in August by the Office of Road and Rail. It is available online at: <a href="http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/21039/gb-rail-industry-financial-information-2014-15.pdf" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/21039/gb-rail-industry-financial-information-2014-15.pdf</a> (Table 5.1).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 10:18:53 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

524825

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Overtime
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 the provision of overtime payments to train staff employed by Govia Thameslink Railway.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>We do not receive information regarding staff costs to this level of granularity.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 10:29:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

524827

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Profits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much profit Govia Thameslink Railway was expected to make over the lifetime of its franchise according to the original business case; and how much profit that company has made since the start of that franchise.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The profit Govia Thameslink Railway expected to make over the lifetime of its franchise is a commercially sensitive figure. With regard to their actual profits, Govia will publish their audited annual accounts as required through Companies House.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 10:42:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

524828

registered interest
date	13/06/2016
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, (a) on what dates and (b) by what margins Govia Thameslink Railway has been in breach of the terms of its franchise agreement since the start of that franchise in 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	40446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Since Rail Industry period 7 in financial year 2015/16 (ending mid October 2015), Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) have exceeded the breach level for the Cancellations benchmark. The Secretary of State issued GTR with a Remedial Plan Notice last year requiring them to set out in a Remedial Plan the measures they will take in order to improve their performance and included remedial plan benchmarks against which GTR are measured for the duration of the Remedial Plan. GTR have not breached the remedial plan cancellations benchmark and are under the breach benchmark for delays and peak short formations.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2016 10:35:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

523624

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been paid in fines by Govia Thamelink Railway to his Department to compensate for poor performance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	39858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR’s) provision of services for the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise only began on 14 September 2014, with Southern services included from 26 July 2015.</p><p> </p><p>There is an incentive/penalty regime in place and this has seen just over £2 million levied against GTR in respect of their Cancellation and Short-Formation performance benchmarks.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/06/2016 16:37:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

523625

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
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, how much has been paid in fines by Network Rail to Govia Thamelink Railway to compensate for poor performance in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	39871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR's) provision of services for the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise only began on 14 September 2014, with Southern services included from 26 July 2015.</p><p>Network Rail’s performance is regulated by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), who have agreed a £4.1m package of improvements to be delivered by Network Rail on the Southern part of GTR franchise area in order to address performance issues.</p><p>There is a compensation and incentive regime element within the Track Access Agreement between Network Rail and each operator, and this is overseen by the ORR.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/06/2016 16:56:27 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

523221

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Govia Thameslink Railway: Franchises
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent changes he has agreed to the rail franchise agreement with Govia Thameslink Railway.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	39564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The latest version of the Franchise Agreement, including all recent changes can be seen online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525766/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/525766/tsgn-franchise-agreement.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/06/2016 11:34:20 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton