Compensation paid by ScotRail under the Delay Repay guarantee: FOI release

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002


Information requested

How much compensation was paid to passengers each month by ScotRail under the Delay Repay guarantee over the past 5 years (from 2016-17 to 2020-21).

Response

ScotRail is required through the Franchise Agreement to provide a delay-repay scheme to passengers, which offers compensation when their journey is delayed by more than 30 minutes.

Please see Annex A the information relating to the amount and value of settled claims from 2016/17 to 2020/21.

Annex A 

Year 2016-17

Total Paid £

Number of Repay Claims

Period 1

17,711.42

2,219

Period 2

36,965.34

2,744

Period 3

37,690.63

3,222

Period 4

28,386.09

2,357

Period 5

38,116.32

2,722

Period 6

37,131.69

3,191

Period 7

39,540.31

3,936

Period 8

22,709.17

3,414

Period 9

50,569.26

6,648

Period 10

34,804.81

3,576

Period 11

33,193.97

5,091

Period 12

14,712.81

2,228

Period 13

13,930.93

2,006

Year 2017-18

Total Paid £

Number of Repay Claims

Period 1

19,307.88

2,474

Period 2

26,032.98

3,208

Period 3

50,052.90

4,602

Period 4

22,635.83

2,088

Period 5

41,446.40

4,176

Period 6

22,044.58

2,234

Period 7

45,827.81

4,730

Period 8

73,326.44

8,387

Period 9

56,103.12

6,509

Period 10

24,686.85

3,211

Period 11

33,560.87

3,445

Period 12

92,130.08

10,716

Period 13

140,513.68

17,204

Year 2018-19

Total Paid £

Number of Repay Claims

Period 1

42,261.90

4,473

Period 2

44,924.23

5,357

Period 3

51,287.09

6,002

Period 4

107,277.52

12,767

Period 5

64,808.78

7,412

Period 6

54,628.81

5,956

Period 7

139,931.63

16,443

Period 8

130,002.42

15,226

Period 9

92,283.63

12,844

Period 10

142,333.06

15,199

Period 11

79,312.79

11,320

Period 12

69,881.40

9,411

Period 13

100,885.09

14,244

Year 2019-20

Total Paid £

Number of Repay Claims

Period 1

91,429.40

11,635

Period 2

73,875.72

8,756

Period 3

72,287.62

8,366

Period 4

86,505.59

9,986

Period 5

98,903.67

10,023

Period 6

133,842.09

11,896

Period 7

91,280.73

8,593

Period 8

91,614.16

9,435

Period 9

85,063.52

8,578

Period 10

80,166.92

9,205

Period 11

66,171.83

7,988

Period 12

91,144.58

6,772

Period 13

67,697.34

4,687

Year 2020-21

Total Paid £

Number of Repay Claims

Period 1

2,223.01

118

Period 2

883.04

69

Period 3

765.40

54

Period 4

3,833.78

172

Period 5

15,861.08

1,011

Period 6

16,983.27

915

Period 7

10,114.08

647

Period 8

9,499.96

501

Period 9

6,016.37

346

Period 10

5,845.59

258

Period 11

5,749.37

248

Period 12

9,705.36

488

Period 13

2,078.74

127


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