PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
South Western Rail Franchise (31 October 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what change in the number of passenger miles travelled there has been in the South Western Trains/South Western Railway franchise area in the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Damian Hinds (Conservative)

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes data on the number of rail passenger kilometres by train operator, which has been converted to miles and presented in the table below.

Table 1: Passenger miles on South Western Railway (billions), 2008-09 to 2018-19

Financial year	South Western Railways passenger miles (billions)	Annual Percentage change
2008-09	3.32
2009-10	3.28	-1.2%
2010-11	3.43	4.6%
2011-12	3.55	3.5%
2012-13	3.59	1.1%
2013-14	3.76	4.7%
2014-15	3.87	2.9%
2015-16	3.98	2.8%
2016-17	3.98	0.0%
2017-18	3.69	-7.3%
2018-19	3.75	1.6%

Passenger kilometres by train operator from 2011-12 are available in Table 12.11 at the following link:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/passenger-rail-usage/

Historic data prior to 2011-12 is available in the ORR’s archived publications at the following link:

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20180605092325/http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/previous-data/orr-archived-national-rail-trends-publications

Answered by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
5 November 2019