Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative assessment he has made of the costs of (a) indemnifying train companies from losses on strike days and (b) meeting rail workers' union's pay demands.

No compensation has been paid by the Department to train operators to cover lost revenue due to strike action. Under the terms of the operator agreements put in place since the onset of COVID, the Government is on revenue risk not operators and hence operators are not financially affected by any fluctuations in revenue.