Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what date in 2021 her Department approved the payment of a £30,000,000 dividend by London and Southeastern Railways Ltd under the terms of its Emergency Measures Agreement.

London and South Eastern Railway Limited (LSER) were within the contractual financial ratios and the Department was not required to give approval to allow it to make the dividend payment.

The dividend payment was therefore a matter for LSER and its owning group.