Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on (a) passenger volumes and (b) ticket revenues on the rail network in (b) March to October (a) 2020 and (b) 2019.

Information on the number of rail passenger journeys and ticket revenue is collected within the rail industry’s LENNON (Latest Earnings Network Nationally Over Night) ticketing and revenue database, to which the Department is granted access on a strictly confidential basis.

The information requested is not currently available in the public domain, however with the agreement of the rail industry some information is made available, which you may find of interest.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department publish data comparing daily rail journeys since March 2020 to an equivalent day last year. This information is updated on the website below on a weekly basis:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/transport-use-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic

Additionally, The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish data on journey numbers and revenue in a quarterly statistical release. The latest statistics, which cover up to the end of June 2020, can be found on their website:

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