Railways: Fares

(asked on 17th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential impact of a rise in rail fares on passenger numbers.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 21st January 2022

Rail fares increases will be capped and tied to the Retail Price Index (RPI) figure for July 2021 (3.8%). The Government has deliberately continued to use the July figure as it was lower than the months since, as an August or September RPI figure would have led to a 4.8% or 4.9% change with October being even higher at 6%.

No specific assessment has been made on environmental impacts or on those on the rail industry in general. On passenger numbers, the Department takes guidance from the Passenger Demand Forecasting Handbook on the effect of changes to fares on rail demand and revenues.

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