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Train Operating Companies: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the net cost to the public purse was of Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation to operators for disruption on the rail network in 2023-24.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
3 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the net cost to the public purse was of Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation to operators for disruption on the rail network in 2023-24.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation transactions are primarily between bodies whose costs and revenues are included in the Department for Transport’s group budgets, therefore these have no net cost to the exchequer.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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