Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many train-platform interface injuries were recorded in the latest year for which figures are available; how many of those were on driver-only operated trains; and what each figure represents as a proportion of relevant passenger journeys.

During 2015/16 there were 5 fatalities, 52 major injuries and 1,388 minor injuries recorded on the national rail network in passenger incidents at the platform/train interface; information is not recorded on which of these may have involved trains which were driver-only operated or which had a driver and a guard. These represent, respectively, around one fatality in every 350 million journeys, one major injury in every 30 million journeys, and one minor injury in every 1 million journeys.