RAILWAYS: SOUTH EAST

24th November 2015

Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains on the (a) Brighton and (b) East Grinstead line have been cancelled due to a lack of driver in each of the last six months.

Claire Perry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport: The operator is not required to supply this information to the Department. We have such figures at the franchise level, but not to the level of disaggregation required. Therefore we can provide the following:

 

Cancellation Due to:-

15/16

GTR - Driver

GTR - Rolling stock

GTR - Other

Network Rail responsible

Other TOC responsible

Trains Planned

Period 1 ending 2 May*

941

468

337

2385

305

91581

Period 2 ending 30 May

725

462

333

1615

122

90926

Period 3 ending 27 Jun

1118

582

254

1574

93

91445

Period 4 ending 25 Jul

1291

775

375

1826

79

91867

Period 5 ending 22 Aug

1551

787

402

1582

76

92103

Period 6 ending 19 Sep

1741

535

489

1098

75

91303

Period 7 ending 17 Oct

1139

944

394

1537

74

91338

* The figure for period 1 was ‘normalised’ to a 28-day period as it was actually four days longer than usual to take into account the start of the financial year

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