Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which parts of the report by Chris Gibb, Changes to improve the performance of the Southern network and train services and restore passenger confidence, published in December 2016, have been redacted; and if he will list those redactions by page and paragraph number.

Chris Gibb’s independent report was published on 22 June. The Department for Transport have published the full report. Two sections were redacted to protect commercial confidentiality, these are Appendix 9 and a paragraph in the main body of the report at section 4.1.3. Aside from these redactions only names, telephone numbers and photographs were redacted.