Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what the Rail Reparation Fund, announced by Network Rail in December 2015, was spent.

The Rail Reparation Fund has been spent by Network Rail on a number of initiatives to improve the rail infrastructure in the South East. To date the fund has been used to pay for dedicated track teams to provide rapid response during disruptions and preventative work treat sites vulnerable to hot weather speed restrictions; additional station staff to improve passenger information and assistance; and Land Sheriffs to deal with safety related incidents on the track and elsewhere.