Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2017 to Question 59594, how many trains ran with fewer than the scheduled number of carriages during peak-time hours across the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in December 2016.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) reported to us that 396 peak-time services operated with fewer than the scheduled number of carriages during railway period 1709 (13^th November 2016 to 10^th December 2016). The figures for period 1710 (11^th December 2016 to 7^th January 2017) have not been reported to the Department as yet.

The services included within this total include a substantial number which GTR have incorporated in their ongoing force majeure claim, where the disruption caused by the unjustified union actions have resulted in rolling stock being out of position.