Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of trains on the Southeastern rail network have been delayed in each of the past five years; and what proportion of those delayed trains were the fault of (a) Southeastern and (b) Network Rail.
The proportion of trains which did not meet their Public Performance Measure (PPM) on the South-eastern network for the last five years, is as follows:
6 Jan 2013 - 4 Jan 2014 10.3%
5 Jan 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 11.9%
4 Jan 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 11.7%
10 Jan 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 14.1%
8 Jan 2017 - 6 Jan 2018 11.3%
The responsibility for these was apportioned as follows:
| Network Rail | Southeastern | Other Operators |
6 Jan 2013 - 4 Jan 2014 | 61% | 33% | 6% |
5 Jan 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 | 62% | 32% | 6% |
4 Jan 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 | 57% | 38% | 5% |
10 Jan 2016 - 7 Jan 2017 | 67% | 29% | 4% |
8 Jan 2017 - 6 Jan 2018 | 64% | 31% | 5% |
(PPM – defined as services 5 or more minutes late at destination; were cancelled; did not complete their full journey; or failed to stop at a station)