Railways: Fares

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he plans to reduce passenger fares on trains between Hull and (a) Liverpool and (b) Leeds; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 16th October 2017

The Government has committed to capping regulated rail fares at RPI+0% through to 2020. This extends the cap on rail fare increases put in place for 2014 and 2015. Regulated Fare increases are based on the July Retail Price Index (RPI) figures that are released in August each year.

The fares that passengers pay are supporting the biggest modernisation programme on Britain’s railways for over a century. We have recently announced that we will continue the current record level of funding with around £48 billion spending on the network in the period from 2019 to 2024, which will support more maintenance and a huge uplift in renewals to increase reliability, and punctuality, for passengers.

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