Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of trains between Ashford and Rye.

Over the past three full railway periods (December 2023 to the start of March 2024) 76.5% of services on this route arrived within 1 minute of their planned arrival time and 4.1% of services were cancelled. This is an improvement from the same period last year where 59% of services arrived within 1 minute of their planned arrival time and 5.8% of services were cancelled.