Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much his Department plans to spend on introducing smart ticketing for public transport in the North.
In November 2015 the Government committed £150m for Transport for the North (TfN) to deliver multi-modal smart ticketing across the North of England.
TfN are preparing a business case for the programme, which will set out its scope and plan for rollout, costs and benefits and the necessary arrangements with passenger transport operators.