Oral QuestionHome Office

“What his Department's target is for the length of time between a person’s immigration application being refused and their being deported from the UK.”

Tabled: 10 July 2018Answered: 16 July 2018

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Keir Mather)

We are starting to see train reliability stabilise, following a decade of decline. We are working with the rail industry on a performance restoration framework, with five clear areas of focus to recover performance to acceptable levels. These include timetable resilience, staffing, and keeping trains safely moving during disruptive events. Rail usage is up month on month: some 451 million journeys were made on Britain’s railways last quarter, which is a 7% increase on the same period last year.