Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the total train delays in 2016–17 resulted from incidents over which the railway network and operators had no control; and how much total time delay occurred as a result of such incidents.

Incidents over which the rail industry had no control (for example vandalism, trespass, fatalities, disorder on trains and severe weather) accounted for approximately 16% of all delay minutes in the year 1^st April 2016 – 31^st March 2017. Over the same time period, such incidents caused approximately 2.85 million delay minutes to the rail industry.