Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2025 to Question 78714 on Railways: Tickets, whether her Department has undertaken research on reasons for participation levels in the Digital Pay As You Go trials in (a) Yorkshire and (b) the East Midlands; and what steps she is taking to increase take-up.

The Department is monitoring participation rates as trials go live, and the evaluation of the trial will consider participation amongst users over time.

To increase take-up, there will be further press activity for the launch of the third trial, in addition to significant ongoing marketing activity.