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Railways: Standards

Asked by Jerome MayhewConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 6 July 2026UIN 14930

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2026 to Question 7525 on Railways: Standards, whether each state-owned Train Operating Company records service cancellations attributable to (a) short-notice staff sickness and (b) crew unavailability; and if she will list the systems used to record those causes.

Answered by Keir Mather

Train operating companies monitor a range of management information locally in addition to official cancellation attribution data. This may include information on cancellations due to short notice staff sickness and crew unavailability. The recording and storing of this information requires a range of software – the detail of which is beyond the operational information held by the Department.

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