Tim Yeo: DfT: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Railways: Passengers

Thursday 5th March 2015

Asked by: Tim Yeo (Conservative - South Suffolk)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the number of rail passenger journeys.

Answered by Claire Perry

In the first four years under this Government, passenger journeys increased by 26%. The number of journeys made on the rail network grew by 6% in 2013/14, and has more than doubled since privatisation.