Asked by: Josh Babarinde (Liberal Democrat - Eastbourne)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to take steps through Great British Railways, once the network is nationalised, to reduce the role of commission-charging railway ticketing websites.
Answered by Mike Kane - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We have no plans to reduce the role of independent retailers once rail operators are brought into public ownership.
Independent retailers add significant value to the marketplace in driving innovation and the Government wants to see them continuing to do so in the future.