Rail Performance

I am grateful to the shadow Secretary of State for acknowledging that we provided the statement i...

I call the Chair of the Transport Committee.

The Transport Secretary’s statement is hugely welcome. Bringing privately owned train operating c...

I am grateful that my hon. Friend is concerned about my work-life balance—so am I. We are staffin...

I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. I also welcome the new shadow ...

To confirm, we are working with the trade unions at the moment on productivity improvements. We a...

Everyone is praising my right hon. Friend to the heavens now that High Speed 2 will end at Euston...

The day when everyone is praising me to the heavens on HS2 is one I look forward to. As my hon. F...

I thank the Secretary of State for coming to the House and updating us, because it gives her an o...

Either the Rail Minister or I will of course seek to meet representatives of West Midlands Trains...

I call Select Committee member Laurence Turner.

The shadow Secretary of State said that we should pay attention to performance statistics. The fi...

Shadow Great British Railways brings together the Department, Network Rail, and those operators t...

I welcome the gusto with which the Secretary of State approaches her work, and in particular her ...

I completely empathise, and agree that the situation in Oxford is not good enough. The hon. Lady’...

I welcome the Transport Secretary’s comments today, and her emphasis on good industrial relations...

The truth is that the previous Government deliberately provoked and prolonged that strike, the lo...

Chiltern Railways was absent from the Secretary of State’s statement, but when it comes to rail p...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Chiltern was the worst-performing operator last year, in ...

I call Select Committee member Catherine Atkinson.

I welcome the Secretary of State’s success in ending national industrial disputes as a first step...

I was delighted to be in Derby recently to confirm that the headquarters of Great British Railway...

I call Select Committee member Rebecca Smith.

It has recently been brought to my attention that in Great Western Railway, which serves my const...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and unfortunately that is the picture across too much of our r...

I call Select Committee member Dr Scott Arthur.

I thank the Secretary of State for her statement, and for the leadership that she is showing to g...

It was extraordinarily frustrating to see the news of the obscene amounts of money spent on that ...

After a weekend of cancellations at Windermere, Oxenholme and elsewhere, will the Secretary of St...

I have routine conversations with Northern Rail, as the hon. Gentleman would imagine. The most re...

Doncaster has a long and historic relationship with the railways; we are home to both the Mallard...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The strikes were costing us £20 million a day in lost revenue...

What lessons has the Secretary of State drawn from rail networks in other countries about rail pe...

I will look into the issue for the right hon. Gentleman. It may be that the Rail Minister has to ...

They say that money doesn’t grow on trees, but apparently it flies out the window for £100 millio...

I was absolutely horrified, on entering the Department, to learn that there had been no routine m...

GWR, which serves my Bath constituency, has been performing in the most disappointing way, to say...

The problem across the entire railway is that we do not have sufficient drivers or staff, so too ...

At a recent meeting with me to discuss rail improvements for my constituents, the chief executive...

We will see 44 additional trains per day on the new timetable from Southeastern. CrossCountry res...

People can only go so far out of London into the Spelthorne constituency on their Oyster card; th...

The Mayor of London is the owner of Transport for London, but we can absolutely work together to ...

Commuters at Arlesey and Hitchen stations in my constituency are driven to despair by the shockin...

I am grateful for those comments. Govia Thameslink had an improvement of 3% in its cancellations ...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s update on how the UK Government are following in the Scottish ...

One of the purposes of this reform was to save the taxpayer money, and bringing operators into pu...

My constituents are reliant on a train line between Reading and Waterloo that has seen no improve...

I absolutely agree. For too long, passengers have not been able to rely on the railways, and it h...

Improved rail performance is of course welcome, but my constituents in Somerton and Langport are ...

We will be setting out a long-term infrastructure strategy in spring next year, working with the ...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s decisive action to end industrial action, get the railways mov...

LNER’s reliability has improved in the past year, but I am not naive and do not think we are ther...

My constituents have to rely on two of the most unreliable train operating companies: Northern an...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Northern and TransPennine Express serve my constituency as wel...

My constituents in Calder Valley are also sick of the performance of Northern Rail. In July, the ...

We can hear from the House how much of an impact the levels of service on Northern Rail are havin...

Earlier this year, Avanti West Coast services on the north Wales main line had on-the-day cancell...

My views on Avanti’s performance are well known, I think. The right hon. Lady is absolutely right...

I extend my thanks to the Secretary of State and the team for the early action they have taken to...

Wi-fi is one of the examples of passenger experience that we are clear needs to be delivered thro...

I join the chorus of those talking about GWR’s shocking Sunday service. Its timetable is a work o...

Again, the current fragmentation of the network means that we have dozens of different types of r...

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Richard Quigley, can you confirm that you were here at the beginning of the Secretary of State’s ...

No, I was not.

I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement, and particularly the sentiment about putting passen...

I am conscious of the disruption that will be experienced by passengers coming from the south-wes...

I call Richard Quigley—honesty goes a long way.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I truly am grateful. I was going to say that my train was late, ...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing my hon. Friend to ask a question. I thou...

I thank the Secretary of State very much for her statement. She has been clear that transparency ...

The purpose of displaying performance data at stations is to give passengers certainty and transp...