Question follow-through · 70236
Public Transport: Tickets
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to extend smart ticketing.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 3 Sept 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to extend smart ticketing.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is delivering on its ambition to overhaul ticketing for passengers and get more people on the railway. We have committed to expanding Pay As You Go (PAYG) with contactless ticketing to further stations in the South East, with an additional ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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