{"id":1396,"date":"2016-10-27T10:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T10:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-10-27T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T10:57:40","slug":"michael-calls-for-southeastern-compensation-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Michael Calls for Southeastern Compensation Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-878\" style=\"width: 2592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Inspecting the work in progress at London Bridge Station\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg 2592w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspecting the work in progress at London Bridge Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael has called on Southeastern to offer a new, more generous compensation system for passengers who\u00a0have experienced delays.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Transport recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-announces-improved-compensation-scheme-for-rail-passengers\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that rail passengers will soon be able to claim 25 percent of the cost of the single fare if their train is more than 15 minutes late.\u00a0 This is a reduction from the current limit of 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Under current plans,\u00a0Southeastern passengers are currently unlikely to benefit until 2018. \u00a0Michael\u00a0has written to David Statham, Managing Director of Southeastern, to ask him to implement\u00a0the improved \u2018Delay Repay 15\u2019 compensation scheme sooner.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: &#8220;With the disruption caused by work at London Bridge, my constituents should be able to benefit from this improved system right now.\u00a0 I have asked Southeastern to work with the Department for Transport to introduce this enhanced offer as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has called on Southeastern to offer a new, more generous compensation system for passengers who\u00a0have experienced delays. The Department for Transport recently announced\u00a0that rail passengers will soon be able to claim 25 percent of the cost of the single fare if their train is more than 15 minutes late.\u00a0 This is a reduction from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Calls for Southeastern Compensation Improvements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[490,95,90,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}