Question follow-through · 30229
Railways: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce rail fares.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce rail fares.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
We are committed to reforming the overcomplicated fares system with a view to simplifying it. While it is our ambition, through public ownership, to deliver a more affordable railway, any long-term changes or concessions made to rail fares policy require ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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