A Bill to require Schedule 8 disruption payments between Network Rail and train operating companies to be allocated to specified projects aimed at increasing the quality, value for money or reliability of passengers’ experience of railway travel and associated services; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
13 May 2016
This Bill would require disruption payments made between Network Rail and train operating companies (under Schedule 8) to be spent on specified projects. The funded projects must aim to improve the quality, value for money, or reliability of passenger rail travel and related services. It ties disruption payments to concrete improvements for passengers’ experience on the railway.
The Bill is currently at its Second Reading in the House of Commons. If it clears this stage, it would move on to detailed examination (committee stage) and subsequent readings before potentially going to the House of Lords.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2015-16 session of Parliament has ended and this Bill will make no further progress.
This Bill was introduced to Parliament on Wednesday 13 April under the Ten Minute Rule. This allows an MP to make his or her case for a new bill in a speech lasting up to ten minutes. An opposing speech may also be made before the House decides whether or not the bill should be introduced. If the MP is successful the bill is taken to have had its first reading.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
