Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what performance indicators his Department uses to measure the number of times that trains run by franchise operators have not stopped at a station as a result of a service already being late running.

Services that skip one or more stations for reasons the operator itself is responsible are considered as Part Cancellations within the Department’s Cancellation performance regime. This means they are counted towards the overall number of Cancellations any operator incurs against its benchmark. The Department does not routinely require any specific reason for a cancellation to be reported.