Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average level of overcrowding is on each rail service.

The Department collects and publishes crowding related data for selected midweek services arriving or departing from major English and Welsh cities during a 12 week period in autumn. Full details of the cities and stations for which there were crowded services are presented in the most recent publication and in the associated 2022 Data Tables, here:

Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The service-level passenger load information collected by the Department is considered commercially sensitive by the operators who own the data and therefore the information is held by the Department under a duty of confidentiality.