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Written Question
West Coast Railway Line
Monday 30th June 2014

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the level of punctuality for passenger rail services (a) operated by Virgin on the West Coast Main Line and (b) on average across all lines was in each year since 1996-97.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

Public Performance Measure (PPM) Moving Annual Average (MAA) figures at year end; 1997/98-2013/14: Virgin West Coast (VWC) & National

Year

VWC

National

1997/98

79.54%

89.80%

1998/99

76.97%

87.92%

1999/00

81.74%

87.84%

2000/01

62.82%

79.08%

2001/02

68.69%

78.02%

2002/03

73.50%

79.19%

2003/04

74.76%

81.20%

2004/05

72.14%

83.61%

2005/06

83.52%

86.39%

2006/07

86.01%

88.09%

2007/08

86.15%

89.89%

2008/09

80.04%

90.58%

2009/10

84.55%

91.45%

2010/11

86.55%

90.85%

2011/12

85.87%

91.63%

2012/13

83.61%

90.93%

2013/14

85.79%

89.97%

(Figures are taken from periodically-produced Network Rail PPM data)

Written Question
West Coast Railway Line
Monday 30th June 2014

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new (a) ticket machines and (b) automatic barriers will be introduced at stations on the West Coast Main Line under the terms of the franchise for rail passenger services directly awarded to West Coast Trains Ltd; and in which stations they will be installed.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

Under the terms of the Direct Award to West Coast Trains Limited (a) 41 Ticket Vending Machines will be installed across stations West Coast Trains Limited serve; and (b) 200 Automatic Ticket Gates will be installed across stations West Coast Trains serve, prioritising routes between Euston and Birmingham and Euston and Manchester.

Written Question
West Coast Railway Line
Monday 30th June 2014

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated level of (a) public subsidy, (b) premium payments, (c) Network Grant and (d) revenue support will be during the term of the franchise directly awarded to West Coast Trains Ltd for rail passenger services on the West Coast Main Line.

Answered by Stephen Hammond

The Direct Award to West Coast Trains Limited contains contracted premium payments of approximately £433 million. No revenue support or public subsidy is included in the franchise. Network Grant is not allocated on the basis of individual franchises so it is not possible to estimate this figure.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 25 Apr 2013
Oral Answers to Questions

"Further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), may I draw to the Deputy Leader of the House’s attention the fact that the service desk in Portcullis House is no longer staffed? At whatever time of day one goes there for advice or to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 06 Dec 2012
West Coast Rail Franchise

"Is it not clear that the right hon. Gentleman is doing his very best to clear up an appalling mess that he inherited from his predecessor? Although of course matters of personnel in his Department are, as he says, the responsibility of the permanent secretary, the overall administration was the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Oct 2012
West Coast Main Line

"I join those Members who have complimented the right hon. Gentleman on his openness in coming to the House and his readiness to come here frequently. Is he aware that, as is shown in the book “How to be a Minister”, the incompetence, errors and blunders he listed in his …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Oct 2012
West Coast Main Line

"Now that the right hon. Gentleman has rightly put an end to the shambles that he inherited, will he bear in mind the watchword “If you are in a hole, stop digging”? Rather than engaging in an interim process that prolongs uncertainty, will he be fair to the marvellous train …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"It was deeply refreshing to listen to the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh) make—literally—a reactionary speech. We do not often hear such sentiments openly expressed in the House of Commons.

Although the hon. Gentleman claimed that he was seeking to bring us into the real world, he was actually …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

"What I would welcome would be for the hon. Gentleman, as parliamentary representative for a university city—the second university as between Oxford and Cambridge, naturally, but not a bad university in its way—to go to his constituency or stand up here and apologise for the deception of the Liberal Democrats …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 May 2012
Cost of Living

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