Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill on 2 June (HL335), what was the total value of Schedule 8 compensation payments made by Network Rail to Train Operating Companies resulting from rail trespass incidents in (1) 2024, (2) 2025, and (3) 2026 to date.
The Network Rail / British Transport Police’s National Disruption Fusion Unit can supply Schedule 8 (delay report) costs for external (XA) trespass for the following:
The combined figure is £218,374,921.
The annual (by financial year) breakdown is as follows:
2023/24 | £ 71,856,452 |
2024/25 | £ 73,165,870 |
2025/26 | £ 73,352,599 |