| Heading: |
Thameslink Line: Standards |
| Question ID: |
1818691 |
| UIN: |
64465 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5100 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has allocated to reducing the number of rail replacement services required on Thameslink services in the 2025-26 financial year. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Answer text: |
The Department requires its train operators to use reasonable endeavours to provide alternative means of transport where they cannot provide their planned train service. Rail replacement bus services are typically provided when parts of the railway are cl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |