Question follow-through · 31542
Fares: Non-payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to prevent fare evasion on the cross-city line between North Worcestershire and Birmingham.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to prevent fare evasion on the cross-city line between North Worcestershire and Birmingham.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Department supports DfT contracted train operators to reduce both fare evasion and fraud, but fare evasion is an operational matter and the responsibility of passenger train operators. West Midlands Trains (WMT), which operates the cross-city line, l...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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