Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Tom Tugendhat Excerpts
Tuesday 9th December 2025

(3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Let’s try another ticket: Tom Tugendhat.

Tom Tugendhat Portrait Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge) (Con)
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I very much welcome the statement that the Chancellor has just made. Can I take that as an assurance that she will speak to her right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary and make sure that rail fares in Tonbridge do not increase when a second peak-time service is introduced when contactless is rolled out as far as Tonbridge? That, of course, would be a sleight of hand, and she would never want to do that.