Question follow-through · 34096

Railways: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total number of minutes was by which trains were delayed in 2024.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
3 Mar 2025
Answer
7 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total number of minutes was by which trains were delayed in 2024.

  2. 3 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The ORR publish statistics on delay minutes on their website at https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/ (Table 3184). In the year ending 4 January 2025, a total of 15,897,997 delay minutes (15.9 million) were recor...

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