Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information he holds on how many bus routes have been discontinued in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands in each year since 2010.

Bus operators must register their services with a Traffic Commissioner in the traffic area in which the service operates.

Information regarding 2011/12 and subsequent years can be found here in the tables relating to local bus service registrations, which shows new and cancelled bus service registrations: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/traffic-commissioners-annual-reports

Information regarding 2009/10 and 2010/11 can be found here in the tables relating to local bus service registrations: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20131113220328/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-commissioners-annual-reports