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<p>The Secretary of State for Transport has asked the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to
support the industry in developing an approach to move towards adopting CPI as the
inflation measure for future pay deals. We have made a similar request of the trades
unions, with the aim of ensuring that the railway is affordable for the fare paying
and tax paying public for decades to come.</p><p> </p><p>It may be appropriate to
have above inflation pay where there are productivity or similar improvements.</p>
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