Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of train journeys in the north of England experience regular delays.

The Department monitors the performance of its franchised operators through pre-determined benchmarks and can require the operator to incur expenditure to deliver improved performance for passengers if it falls below a pre-determined level. North of England services are operated by a number of operators, including both those that operate wholly within the North and those that operate North-South. Therefore performance data is not held at this level.