Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing regional railcards.

A number of regional railcards already exist. These typically arise from local agreements with train operators. As such any proposal for, or development of, new offers or railcards would fall to individual train operators following an assessment of and in response to local demand.

National Railcards are governed by the railcard scheme council and any changes to existing railcards, or new railcards, would therefore be for the industry to propose not Government.