HC Deb 01 February 2002 vol 379 c582W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions how many freight services used the channel tunnel in each month since January 2000. [29584]

Mr. Jamieson

The figures for the number of trains are in the following table provided by EWSI, the UK operator of these services:

2000 2001
January 522 615
February 632 621
March 688 657
April 616 395
May 633 672
June 656 676
July 671 637
August 464 503
September 595 586
October 618 594
November 661 291
December 551 255