Virgin Trains: Compensation
(asked on 30th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much (a) Network Rail and (b) his Department paid Virgin Trains during (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18 as compensation for late running train services on the West Coast Mainline between Liverpool and London.
This question was answered on 4th February 2019
Network Rail publishes data covering payments between Network Rail and Virgin Trains, which can be found here: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Payments-for-disruption-on-the-railway-made-under-schedule-8.xlsx
The Department does not make payment to Virgin Trains as compensation for late running services.