Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 88879

Railways: Repairs and Maintenance

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 13 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to maintain the schedule 4 compensation mechanism for planned service disruption for operators outside Great British Railways.

Answer

Keir Mather
GBR will be required to have a performance and incentives scheme that covers planned and unplanned disruption to protect all users operating services on the network.