Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the (a) operational performance benchmarks and (b) default performance levels for train operating companies on National Rail contracts.

The Department holds operators to account for their performance through the National Rail Contracts. Whilst the Department does not publish details of operational performance benchmarks, we require operators to publish performance metrics on their websites and will publish annual performance fees on gov.uk once all performance fees are finalised.