High Speed Two: Travel

(asked on 13th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217418, how much of the £2,506,977.66 spent on rail fares by HS2 Ltd between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2018 was spent on (a) first class fares, (b) second class fares and (c) fares that attract savings.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 18th February 2019

The breakdown of the £2,506,977 spent on rail fares by HS2 Ltd between 1 January and 31 December 2018 is as follows

a) £0 was spent on first class fares.

b) There are no second class fares*

c) A percentage saving was made on fares valuing £1,521,880

*£2,496,975 was spent on standard class and the remainder on Eurostar tickets

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