Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions there was significant disruption to East Coast Main Line services as a result of signal failures in each of the last 12 months.
In the 12 month period up to August 2019 there were three occasions on which signal failures on the East Coast Main Line caused more than 500 minutes of delay; one of these incidents caused more than 1,000 minutes of delay.