Asked by: Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect that the Department of Transport will be reporting on the performance of trains, including on running times, cancellations, and staff absences, following the pay agreement with ASLEF.
Answered by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
Resolving the long running pay dispute has brought certainty for passengers as we work to improve the railways.
The Office of Rail and Road publishes quarterly and periodic (four-weekly) statistics on punctuality, reliability and causes of delay for passenger trains operating on the mainline network in Great Britain. This information shows that the moving annual average for cancellations has remained flat at 4.1per cent for the most recent three rail periods; suggesting that reliability is stabilising following a long term declining trend over the past decade. This is helping to improve revenue, which is good news for taxpayers.
We are committed to providing transparency for passengers around performance, which is why we have made station specific performance information available more than 1,700 stations across England since March 2025.’