Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money (a) Network Rail and (b) his Department paid Virgin Trains in (i)2016-17and (ii) 2017-18 as compensation for late running services on the West Coast Mainline.
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.