Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many fatalities there have been on the rail network in each year since 2010.

Official statistics for fatalities on the mainline railway network in Great Britain are published by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), using information from the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB).

The latest statistics (for years up to 2018-19) are published on the ORR website at:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/health-and-safety/rail-safety/

Statistics for fatalities and suicides from 2009-10 to 2018-19 are included in Table 1 below, separated by suicides and non-suicide fatalities.

Table 1: Number of mainline railway fatalities: 2009-10 to 2018-19

These figures include passenger fatalities, public fatalities (including trespassers, level crossing users and suicides) and workforce fatalities. Workforce includes all fatalities that occurred whilst working for the railway, including those that did not happen on the rail network (for instance, whilst travelling via road from one work station to another).