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Travel Cards: Harpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Oyster card scheme to stations in the Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
25 Feb 2025
Answer
28 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Oyster card scheme to stations in the Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.

  2. 25 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Transport for London (TfL) and Operators can consider and propose Oyster expansion where a positive business case can be demonstrated. No such proposals have been put forward to the Department. However, we are expanding ticketing innovations such as Pay A...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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