Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of direct trains from Peterborough to London Kings Cross have been cancelled in the last six months.

London North Eastern Railway cancelled a total of 1,501 services between Peterborough and London between 23 July 2023 and 6 January 2024. This equates to 6.1 per cent of their services between these stations. In the past six months Govia Thameslink Railway had 1,673 direct services scheduled to run from Peterborough to King’s Cross, 126 (7.5 per cent) of them were cancelled. A significant proportion of cancellations were due to flooding from named storms and infrastructure failures.