London-Peterborough Railway Line
Transport
Written answers and statements, 16 September 2009
Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many services on the Peterborough to London rail line were (a) cancelled, (b) late and (c) overcrowded in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement.
Paul Clark (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Gillingham, Labour)
The Department for Transport does not hold the specific information requested. The principal train operating company operating on the East Coast is NXEC (previously GNER). The Department does not hold information on trains cancelled by NXEC/GNER, between Peterborough to London.
The operator's total cancellations are listed for the last 10 years in the following table:
| GNER/NXEC total cancellations | |
| Annual totals | |
| 2000 | 306 |
| 2001 | 1,007 |
| 2002 | 615 |
| 2003 | 736 |
| 2004 | 661 |
| 2005 | 559 |
| 2006 | 546 |
| 2007 | 805 |
| 2008 | 997 |
| 2009 | 625 |