Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the effect on train operating company (a) revenues and (b) premium payments to the Government of not implementing in full in December 2018 a new railway timetable or providing the planned level of service.

It is not possible to accurately calculate the impact on revenue of not implementing the December timetable change due to uncertainty as to what level of revenue would have been achieved if the timetable changes had gone ahead as originally planned.

With regard to the premium payments, no assessment has been made.