Question follow-through · 16554
Railways: Timetables
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of short notice changes to the timetable on the rail network.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of short notice changes to the timetable on the rail network.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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4 Dec 2024
Answer published
The department is aware that short notice changes have been occurring due to factors such as incidences of infrastructure issues and traincrew shortages – with a shortage of traincrew causing a high proportion of these short notice changes. The department...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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