Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of National Express West Midlands performance on (a) fares and affordability (b) timetabling and regularity (c) access and (d) punctuality compared to other services in England via the Bus Open Data Service.

The Department publishes Official Statistics on bus punctuality via GOV.UK.

The Bus Open Data Service is a repository of bus timetable, location and fares data made openly available for analysis and consumption via a variety of methods. Each operator is independently validated for their compliance to the specific standards for each data type.