Written questions

Railways

2026-05-18 · Department for Transport · 2807 · Official question

Mr Richard Holden

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the ten routes with the highest number of short-formed services were for each train operating company under DfT Operator ownership in the last 18 months; and how many and what proportion of services operat

Answer

DFT Operator expects operators to provide appropriate capacity in response to expected demand and holds operators to account for short- formed services. DFT Operator generally monitors levels of short formations at an operator level every four weeks and t...