Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were attempting to obtain a 26 to 30 railcard when the website crashed on 13 March 2018.

The trial of 10,000 26-30 railcards is an industry-led initiative to gather evidence and to inform discussions between Government and industry about roll-out of the railcard. Delivery of the trial launch, including sales of the railcard, was led by Rail Delivery Group and it was their digital systems that handled transactions and enquiries on the day.