Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made on the number of passengers using East Midlands train service (a) peak-time north-bound, (b) off-peak north-bound, (c) peak-time south-bound and (d) off-peak south-bound from Bedford in each of the last 10 years.

There are no published statistics on the annual number of passengers travelling on East Midlands train services from Bedford over the past 10 years.

Passenger rail usage statistics for train operators are available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link: http://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/browsereports/12.

Estimates of Station Usage gives annual totals for all passengers entering and exiting each station on Great Britain’s rail network, and is available on the Office of Rail and Road data portal at the following link:

http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates