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1733245

registered interest
date	10/10/2024
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 steps she is taking to improve passenger rail performance.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	8462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2024 answer text <p>Improving railway performance and driving forward rail reform is the Department’s top priority. The Secretary of State and Rail Minister are meeting with Train Operating Companies and Network Rail to hold them to account in a joined-up manner across track and train. Great British Railways (GBR) will put passengers back at the heart of our railways and the Secretary of State established Shadow GBR to kickstart those improvements prioritising performance ahead of the formal establishment of GBR.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 15/10/2024 16:37:00 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1725542

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
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 she holds on the number of train journeys that were cancelled across the rail network as a direct result of crew shortage on 14 July.
tabling member constituency	Wetherby and Easingwold
tabling member printed	Sir Alec Shelbrooke
uin	2839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2024 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the requested data concerning journey cancellations on 14 July 2024 directly due to crew shortages.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 09/09/2024 13:32:17 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
tabling member	3997 label Biography information for Sir Alec Shelbrooke

1717135

registered interest
date	10/05/2024
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 assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the number of train cancellations in Q3 of 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	25677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>Performance varies across the network and is dependent on both reliable infrastructure and strong operator performance. Where we have both, as on Anglia, passengers enjoy great performance and I’m clear this is the standard for all operators to achieve working with their Network Rail route counterparts. I regularly meet Network Rail and train operators to encourage greater collaboration on day-to-day performance including convening a rail industry summit in March.</p><p> </p><p>Reforming and modernising the railway is essential to delivering a more reliable rail network that is financially sustainable and improves the experience for passengers. Outdated working practices, like relying on voluntary overtime to run trains every day of the week, increases the likelihood of cancellations and prevents passengers getting the service they pay for and deserve.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 16/05/2024 15:13:30 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1718638

registered interest
date	09/05/2024
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 steps he is taking to improve rail services.
tabling member constituency	Twickenham
tabling member printed	Munira Wilson
uin	902853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>We are delivering a simpler and better railway. In advance of legislation to establish Great British Railways, we have reorganised the Department of Transport with the creation of an integrated Rail Services Group. This group brings together most of the Passenger Services Group and the Rail Infrastructure Group. This single team, focussed on the day-to-day operational performance of the railway, will pave the way to an integrated rail body.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 16/05/2024 12:49:20 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4776 label Biography information for Munira Wilson

1715928

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many signal failures there were on the rail system in the last year for which data are available; and how the rate of failure in the UK compares with rail systems in other leading countries.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL4378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Network Rail metric for signalling failures indicates there were 2,936 signal failures on the rail system in Great Britain for the period 2023 to 2024. Network Rail does not hold data on how the rate of signal failures compares with other countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 16/05/2024 15:42:58 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1702321

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how the performance of open-access operators compares with the major operator of services on the routes which they share.
tabling member printed	Lord Bradshaw
uin	HL3932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Office of Rail and Road collects and publishes data on cancellations, reliability and punctuality of all rail operators, including Open Access operators. This is set out in the attached table.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 29/04/2024 13:14:01 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower attachment 1 file name Table of Performance of Open Access Operators.pdf title Table of Performance of Open Access Operators
tabling member	2483 label Biography information for Lord Bradshaw

1696558

registered interest
date	18/03/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of trains on Network Rail did not arrive at their destination on time in the last four-weekly period for which data are available.
tabling member printed	Lord Birt
uin	HL3315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>In the period 7 January to 3 February 2024, 66.7% of recorded station stops in Great Britain arrived ‘On Time’ (early or less than one minute after the scheduled time).</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 25/03/2024 16:59:52 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1695968

registered interest
date	13/03/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many trains per day have been cancelled so far in 2024; how this compares to the daily figure for 2023; and what action they are taking to work with the operating companies to reduce the number of cancellations.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL3253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department recognises that cancellations can be very inconvenient for passengers and prevents them from travelling with confidence. That is why the Department holds train operators to account for cancellations. The type of scrutiny depends on the reasons for these cancellations and the inconvenience to passengers.</p><p> </p><p>The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes official cancellation statistics on its online Data Portal, which show that the number of services planned to run in Great Britain between 8 January 2023 and 6 January 2024 was 7,012,172. Of these, 336,289 were either fully or partially cancelled. Between 7 January 2024 and 2 March 2024, the number of services planned to run were 1,106,087, of which 47,904 services have been either fully or partially cancelled.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 25/03/2024 16:59:40 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1691281

registered interest
date	22/02/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to conduct a comparative assessment with other European nations on the state of rail services including on reliability, comfort and pricing.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL2699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department seeks to identify best practice from other countries’ rail networks but is not currently planning a formal comparative assessment.</p><p>The latest Common Safety Indicators from the Office of Rail and Road, which were published 15 February 2024, showed that Great Britain ranks favourably compared with other European countries in terms of employee safety, level crossing user safety and trespasser safety.</p> answering member printed Lord Davies of Gower question first answered 06/03/2024 16:15:48 answering member 4499 label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1688102

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
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 assessment he has made of the potential impact of rail reform on levels of customer satisfaction by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	13552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>Rail reform is tackling the challenges facing the railways to create a customer-focused, commercially led industry. This should significantly improve customer experience between now and 2030.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 19/02/2024 09:54:44 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris