Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the range of rail fares available from ticket offices.

Train operators are required under the Ticketing and Settlement Agreement to provide certain products at ticket offices they operate, for example Anytime and Off-peak products. It is the responsibility of train operators to determine their own retailing strategy. We would expect train operators to take into consideration a range of factors when determining which fares are available from ticket offices.