Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the capacity of rail services to meet levels of demand during (a) parades, (b) football matches and (c) other events.

The Department requires its train operating companies to use all reasonable endeavours to operate adequate railway passenger services to or from any special events which are not already provided for in the base timetable, including providing an appropriate amount of passenger carrying capacity to meet the demand that is likely to arise, subject to the availability of staff, rolling stock and train paths on the network.