Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of regional differences in the average reliability of local train services in England.

Regional cancellation scores can be attained by aggregating published data from the Office of Rail and Road’s cancellations by station (Table 3130a) into regions using the Station attributes (Table 6329).

Figures for the latest year to date ending 12 September 2026 indicate that regional cancellation scores in England range between 2.5% of scheduled station stops in Yorkshire and the Humber, to 4.2% in the South West.

Cancellation score by region, Great Britain, rail periods 07 2025/26 to 06 2026/27 (year ending 12 September 2026)

Source: DfT analysis of published ORR tables 3130a and 6329

Note: there are 13 periods each financial year. Each period is 4 weeks long except P01 and P13.’