RAILWAYS: SOUTH EAST
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the level of punctuality for passenger rail services in the Sussex area of the South East Route operated by (a) Southern Railways, (b) First Capital Connect, (c) London Overground and (d) First Great Western was in each year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
Claire Perry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport: We have the following levels of punctuality for passenger rail services in the Sussex area of the South East Route:
(a) Southern Railways:
Gatwick Express service group*
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| 88.7% | 87.5% | 83.5% | 82.7% | 82.4% |
Metro service group*
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| 90.9% | 91.6% | 90.0% | 86.3% | 82.0% |
Sussex Coast service group*
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| 88.5% | 89.0% | 86.9% | 85.7% | 84.2% |
(b) First Capital Connect/Govia Thameslink (from 14 September 2014) – Thameslink service group*:
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| 88.4% | 89.8% | 88.1% | 86.7% | 82.2% |
(c) London Overground:
Do not provide any services in the Sussex area
(d) First Great Western – London & South East Service Group*:
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 |
| 92.1% | 91.2% | 89.6% | 88.6% | 88.8% |
*This is the lowest level of disaggregation we receive for this data; Sussex services are included in this figure
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