Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on when a risk assessment of passengers self-evacuating from the trains stranded outside Lewisham Station on 2 March 2018 was undertaken; and if he will make a statement.

Southeastern and Network Rail have jointly announced an independently-chaired investigation to carry out a full review of this incident. The findings will be used to improve the management of such incidents in the future. These lessons, will be shared across the whole rail sector. This will include how Southeastern responded to the reports of passenger self-evacuating.