| Heading: |
Railways: Timetables |
| Question ID: |
1745211 |
| UIN: |
16554 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4828 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Paula Barker
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Paula Barker
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of short notice changes to the timetable on the rail network. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-04 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Answer text: |
The department is aware that short notice changes have been occurring due to factors such as incidences of infrastructure issues and traincrew shortages – with a shortage of traincrew causing a high proportion of these short notice changes. The department... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |