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Train Operating Companies: Compensation

Asked by Laurence TurnerLabourDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 8 January 2025UIN 21858

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the net cost to the public purse was of Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation to operators for disruption on the rail network in 2023-24.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation transactions are primarily between bodies whose costs and revenues are included in the Department for Transport’s group budgets, therefore these have no net cost to the exchequer.

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