Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what statistics his Department holds on (a) punctuality and reliability and (b) passengers in excess numbers for rail services on the East Grinstead to London route in each month since November 2009. [9578]

Mrs Villiers MP, Minister of State for Transport [holding answer 19 July 2010]: The Department for Transport does not hold disaggregated performance data for East Grinstead to London. However, the following table shows the public performance measure (PPM) for all Southern services since November 2009. The Period PPM column shows performance in the period itself, while the PPM MAA column shows the moving annual average for the previous 12 months. PPM combines figures for punctuality and reliability into a single performance measure.

Table

Information relating to passengers in excess numbers for rail services on the East Grinstead to London route is not measured on the basis sought and is not available. The information requested is currently published annually in aggregated form by the Office for Rail Regulation within its 'National Rail Trends Yearbook'. The latest published data relate to passenger journeys in 2008-09. Chapter 7 of the latest update of 'National Rail Trends' contains these data and is available on the Office of Rail Regulation website at:

http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.2026