Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2026 to Question 14930 on Railways: Standards, whether her Department has requested management information from any state-owned Train Operating Company on service cancellations attributable to staff sickness or crew unavailability since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The department is keen to ensure that the causes of service cancellations are understood and that plans are in place at Department for Transport Operator (DFTO) train operating companies to address these and improve performance. The department regularly engages DFTO to monitor the effectiveness of measures being implemented.
To help improve reliability, the department developed a seven-point traincrew framework, which includes ensuring operators have high-quality workforce plans based on realistic traincrew establishments, tackling causes of traincrew unavailability, including sickness absence, as well as taking a collaborative approach with staff representatives and the wider workforce to build a more resilient railway. The responsibility for managing this, as well as tracking and tackling the causes of cancellations, sits with DFTO and will sit with Great British Railways in the future.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15380 on South Eastern Main Line: Mobile Broadband, what the names and locations are of the (a) 57 railway tunnels and (b) 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach are Birmingham New Street, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, London Euston, London King’s Cross, London Liverpool Street, London Paddington, London Waterloo and Manchester Piccadilly.
The locations of the 57 tunnels included in the programme are located on the East Coast, West Coast, Great Western, Thameslink, Kent, North West and Wales.
The full list of tunnels is as follows –
| Tunnel |
1 | Ardsley Tunnel |
2 | Potters Bar East Tunnel |
3 | Potters Bar West Tunnel |
4 | Wood Green Centre Tunnel |
5 | Wood Green East Tunnel |
6 | Wood Green West Tunnel |
7 | Barnet West Tunnel |
8 | Barnet East Tunnel |
9 | Barnet Centre Tunnel |
10 | Hadley Wood South East Tunnel |
11 | Hadley Wood South West Tunnel |
12 | Beechwood Tunnel |
13 | Polperro Tunnel |
14 | Buckshead Tunnel |
15 | Farnworth Tunnel (Up Line) |
16 | Farnworth Tunnel (Down Line) |
17 | Clerkenwell No. 1 Tunnel |
18 | Copenhagen Centre Tunnel |
19 | Copenhagen West Tunnel |
20 | Gasworks Centre Tunnel |
21 | Gasworks West Tunnel |
22 | Ludgate Tunnel |
23 | Harecastle New Tunnel |
24 | Primrose Hill Slow Lines Tunnel |
25 | Primrose Hill Fast Lines Tunnel |
26 | Kensal Green Fast Lines Tunnel |
27 | Kensal Green Slow Lines Tunnel |
28 | Kilsby Tunnel |
29 | Stowe Hill Tunnel |
30 | Linslade Up Slow Tunnel |
31 | Linslade Centre Bore (Up Fast / Down Slow) |
32 | Linslade Down Fast Tunnel |
33 | Macclesfield Tunnel |
34 | Prestbury Tunnel |
35 | Marley Tunnel |
36 | Monument Lane Tunnel |
37 | New Street North Western Lines Tunnel |
38 | New Street Midland Lines Tunnel |
39 | Newport New Tunnel |
40 | Newport Old Tunnel |
41 | Northchurch Fast Line Tunnel |
42 | Northchurch Up Slow Tunnel |
43 | Northchurch Down Slow Tunnel |
44 | Parsons Tunnel |
45 | Patchway Up New Tunnel |
46 | Shugborough Tunnel |
47 | Sodbury Tunnel |
48 | Alderton Tunnel |
49 | Peascliffe Tunnel |
50 | Stoke Tunnel |
51 | Treverin Tunnel |
52 | Watford Tunnel Slow Lines |
53 | Watford Tunnel Fast Lines |
54 | Welwyn North Tunnel |
55 | Welwyn South Tunnel |
56 | Whiteball Tunnel |
57 | Wiveliscombe Tunnel |
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many passenger services were cancelled due to rolling stock failure by each train operating company in each month since July 2024.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department expects train operators to provide appropriate capacity to meet anticipated passenger demand, including through the effective deployment and maintenance of rolling stock. While the Department does not hold data on rolling stock availability, or the number of services cancelled because of rolling stock failure, it does hold information on short formations. However, this data is recorded differently across operators, and is not sufficiently comparable to enable a robust assessment of which operator had the highest proportion of services operated with fewer carriages than planned.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which train operating company had the highest proportion of passenger services that were (a) cancelled because of rolling stock failures and (b) operated with fewer carriages than planned in the latest 12-month period for which data is available.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold data on the number of services cancelled because of rolling stock failures. The Department does hold information on short formations. However, the data is recorded differently across operators and is not sufficiently comparable to enable a robust assessment of which operator had the highest proportion of services operated with fewer carriages than planned. The Department expects train operators to provide appropriate capacity to meet anticipated passenger demand, including through the effective deployment and maintenance of rolling stock.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on how many passenger services operated by each train operating company were affected by defective passenger doors in each month since July 2024.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not hold a centrally collated dataset showing how many passenger services operated by each train operating company were affected by defective passenger doors in each month since July 2024. Information on rolling stock defects, including door-related faults, data are recorded and managed by Network Rail and train operators.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of people who were employed in the automotive manufacturing sector in each month since May 2026 up to and including the most recent month for which figures are available.
Answered by Satvir Kaur - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
A response to the Parliamentary Question of 7th July is attached.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Euston Masterplan will set out the anticipated number of (a) homes and (b) affordable homes to be delivered.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We are working at pace with our Master Development Partner, Lendlease, on a Masterplan for Euston, with an emphasis on growth and delivering much needed housing. The number of homes and affordable homes is subject to the development of the Masterplan.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the estimated annual operating cost of the Euston Delivery Company will be once established as a public body.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Currently the Euston Delivery Company sits as a business unit within the Department for Transport as its capability is built. We expect EDC to be stood up as a public body in the Autumn, and its administrative operating budget will be confirmed at that point.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when she expects the outline planning application for the redevelopment of Euston to be submitted.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We are working with our Master Development Partner Lendlease on a Masterplan and outline planning application to deliver high-quality mixed-use development around the new HS2 Station and renewed Network Rail station. Lendlease is aiming to submit a planning application in 2027.
Asked by: Jerome Mayhew (Conservative - Broadland and Fakenham)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much each arm's length body sponsored by her Department has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions and (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Simon Lightwood - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The table below shows how much each arm’s length body (ALB) sponsored by the Department for Transport has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions and (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since 4 July 2024. The figures relate to engagement with political stakeholders unless it has not been possible to disaggregate from wider spend. In relation to part (b) of the question, DfT ALBs have not spent money on lobbying consultants.
ALB | How much ALB has spent on (a) in-house external affairs or public affairs functions since July 2024 | How much ALB has spent on (b) external public affairs or lobbying consultants since July 2024 |
Active Travel England
| N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | £0 | £0 |
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | £0 | £0 |
Maritime Coastguard Agency | £0 | £0 |
Vehicle Certification Agency | £0 | £0 |
British Transport Police Authority | £0 | £0 |
Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain | £0 | £0 |
National Highways | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Network Rail | £325,174 | £600,580 |
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East West Rail Company Ltd
| N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
HS2 | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Northern Lighthouse Board | £0 | £0 |
Transport Focus | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend | N/a – it has not been possible to disaggregate engagement with political stakeholders from wider spend |
Trinity House | £0 | £0 |
Office of Rail and Road | £223,635 | £15,940 |