Railways: Coronavirus

(asked on 16th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his letter to the Permanent Secretary of his Department on 20 March 2020 on urgent covid-19 expenditure, what time period the estimated financial effect of £588 million relates to; and what the additional monthly financial effect was for the rail sector since the start of the 2020 financial year.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 22nd July 2020

The £588 million is an estimate that relates to the month of March 2020. It was an estimate made part way through month itself as it became apparent that the Covid-19 pandemic would have a large and immediate impact on rail revenues. The Department is reviewing the data on payments made to train operators under the Emergency Measures Agreements since they were introduced. This information has not yet been finalised but will be published in due course.

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