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date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the regulations governing rail fares and ticketing were last reviewed.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Jack Brereton
uin	247148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Coalition Government conducted a review of fares and ticketing and its Rail Fares and Ticketing: Next Steps document was published in October 2013. In 2016, the Department, Rail Delivery Group, Which?, and Transport Focus worked together to identify actions to improve fares and ticketing for passengers, culminating in the publication of the Action Plan for information on Rail Fares and Ticketing. This resulted in more than 200,000 instances of confusing language and abbreviations being removed from tickets.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/04/2019 14:14:55 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4643 label Biography information for Jack Brereton

1122800

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to review the regulations governing rail fares and ticketing.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Jack Brereton
uin	247149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>The Williams Review is considering how to enable a railway that is able to offer good value fares for passengers, while keeping costs down for taxpayers. The Rail Delivery Group recently published its Easier Fares for All proposals which are a welcome contribution to the Review. The Department is committed to work with the industry to consider how to refresh and update regulations to reflect changing travel patterns, and to understand how their proposals might work and be tested in the real world.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/04/2019 13:38:33 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4643 label Biography information for Jack Brereton