Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many bus routes have been discontinued in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.

Changes to bus services are notified to the Traffic Commissioners.

The Traffic Commissioners Annual Report for 2020-21 is due to be published in Autumn 2021. The latest published data for 2019-20 from the Traffic Commissioners regarding the number of cancelled registrations can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020

Reports for previous years can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/traffic-commissioners-annual-reports

The numbers of cancelled registrations will not be the same as the number of cessations of bus services: a registration that is cancelled may be complemented by a new service introduction that is an exact match or a slight variation to the one that has been cancelled.