Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to implement the recommendations of the Gibb report, published in December 2016.

Chris Gibb’s independent report into Southern Rail makes a number of recommendations for the network that we are already working with industry to deliver.

In early January we committed an extra £300 million to improve infrastructure resilience, and we have established a new board to tackle issues ahead of the huge upgrades Thameslink will bring in 2018. However Chris Gibb found the main cause of widespread disruption for passengers was union action and unusually high levels of sick leave.