Jonathan Reynolds
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(6 years, 1 month ago)
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Chris Grayling
The hon. Lady and I are meeting later, so I will happily talk through that with her.
Jonathan Reynolds (Stalybridge and Hyde) (Lab/Co-op)
Northern’s new emergency timetable takes 165 services out of the timetable. It has been running for the first day today. A further 40 trains have been cancelled and punctuality is running at under 50%. Those figures were correct as I came into the Chamber at 5 o’clock, so they do not include the evening peak. The one question the Secretary of State has not answered so far is this: who in the Department for Transport gave approval for this timetable change to go ahead?
Chris Grayling
Timetable changes are not approved by the Department for Transport. These are matters for the different parts of the rail industry; they are the ones who take those decisions.