Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2016 to Question 53181 and with reference to point 2 in the letter of 17 November 2016 from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport to the Chair of the Transport Committee, on what basis the calculation of the amount of farebox revenue lost as a result of industrial action was made in the absence of a completed assessment of the force majeure claim for such action.

Govia Thameslink Railway provided the Department with the figure that was given to the Chair of the Transport Committee. The force majeure claim has no impact on such calculations.