Question follow-through · 92153
Railways: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains were cancelled due to staff shortages in each year since 2015; and whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of those cancellations.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many trains were cancelled due to staff shortages in each year since 2015; and whether she has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of those cancellations.
20 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold a complete historical dataset of cancellations specifically attributed to staff shortages dating back to 2015. However, Network Rail collects management information on the percentage of trains cancelled due to traincrew issues...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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