To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many delay minutes there were on the railway network in each year since 1993 for which (a) Railtrack and Network Rail and (b) a train operating company was responsible; and what the equivalent figures were for the most recent month for which data are available. (195976)

[holding answer 20 March 2008]: The Department for Transport holds the data requested only from 2005-06 when it took over responsibility for rail passenger franchises. These figures relate to delays caused to franchised passenger services, and are:

The most recently available equivalent data (for the year ending 2 February 2008) is given in the following table.

To seek historic data prior to 2005-06, the hon. Member is advised to contact Network Rail at the following address.

Chief Executive

Network Rail

40 Melton Street

London

NW1 2EE