§ Dr. MarekTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list for each train operating company the number of days in the last 12 months which the company excluded from its calculation of punctuality statistics on the ground that there was no effective service. [63419]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonNo days are excluded from the OPRAF incentive schemes on the grounds of failure to provide an effective service. Neither are days taken out of the OPRAF contractual enforcement regime governing the relationship with operators on these grounds.
However, the Passengers Charter allows for days to be declared 'Void' in a particular Charter Group if no effective service is provided on a particular day. If this happens, season tickets of one month or more will be extended or similar compensation arranged. The OPRAF Bulletin includes punctuality statistics based on the Passenger Charter and from the next edition will include 316W details of the number of void days. Currently void days are generally listed at stations on the Charter Performance Posters.
For the 12 months up to the end of Period 8 (14 November) the following days have been declared void.
Total Anglia Railways Mainline 5 Felixstowe 1 Cardiff Railway 17 Central Trains East Midlands 16 Inter-Urban 16 Mid Wales and Marches 16 Virgin Cross Country 28 Gatwick Express 11 Great Eastern 1 Great North Eastern Railway 5 Great Western Trains 27 Midland Mainline 6 North Western Trains (Inter-Urban only) 1 Silverlink (still subject to confirmation) County 20 Metro NLL 11 Metro Watford 8 South West Trains Main Line 6 Suburban 4 Thameslink 2 Wales and West Cornwall 2 Devon 2 South Cotswolds 2 West and Central Wales 2 Western Express 2 Avon 2 Virgin West Coast West Midlands 36 North West 37 Scotland 47 Notes:
Italic Type—Operator
Normal Type—Service Group