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65794

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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, if it is his policy to retain the capping of rail fares at the rate of RPI + 1, beyond 2015; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Fares revenue is crucial to funding day-to-day railway operations and the massive upgrade programme we are delivering. However, I recognise concerns passengers have about impacts of fares on household budgets, which is why for the first time in a decade average regulated rail fares have been capped at inflation for 2014.</p><p> </p><p>No decision has yet been taken on rail fares for 2015 onwards.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 10/07/2014 14:43:15 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

91098

registered interest
date	08/09/2014
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 limit changes to rail fares for commuters in 2015; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	208569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government is taking action to support hardworking families by lowering the cost of travelling to workplaces and schools. The cost of regulated rail fares for 2015 will be capped at inflation, removing the previously planned increase of rail fares of RPI plus 1%. Furthermore, for 2015, train operating companies will no longer be able to increase individual fares by up to 2% more than the permitted increase.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has therefore protected passengers by taking 3% off the maximum increase for a regulated fare. Over a quarter of million season ticket holders will benefit from this move – saving on average £75 for 2014 and 2015.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/09/2014 14:20:26 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

347371

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
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, how many outstanding disputes there are with train operating companies over payments relating to the decision to hold regulated fares increases at RPI in 2014 and 2015.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>We have no outstanding disputes with train operating companies over payments relating to the decision to hold regulated fare increases at the level of RPI in 2014 and 2015.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/06/2015 11:21:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

346891

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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 the cost to the public purse will be of keeping rail fare rises below the level of inflation until the end of this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	95
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We know that passengers are concerned about the cost of fares. That is why we have capped regulated fares at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI) for two years running, and will continue to do so for the life of this parliament. It is also why over the past two years we have reduced the level of non-cumulative ‘flex’, by which operators could in each year increase individual regulated fares above the permitted average, from the 5% introduced by Labour to 2% in 2014 and 0% in 2015, and will continue this 0% policy to stop operators increasing individual fares above the now permitted average level of RPI for the life of this parliament. The fares rise for January 2016 will be based on July 2015’s RPI. The cost to the Government of capping regulated rail fares at RPI+0% for the next five years is estimated to be around £700m (in nominal prices).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 96 question first answered 03/06/2015 10:01:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

346881

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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, if he will reduce rail fares in line with current levels of inflation.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	96
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We know that passengers are concerned about the cost of fares. That is why we have capped regulated fares at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI) for two years running, and will continue to do so for the life of this parliament. It is also why over the past two years we have reduced the level of non-cumulative ‘flex’, by which operators could in each year increase individual regulated fares above the permitted average, from the 5% introduced by Labour to 2% in 2014 and 0% in 2015, and will continue this 0% policy to stop operators increasing individual fares above the now permitted average level of RPI for the life of this parliament. The fares rise for January 2016 will be based on July 2015’s RPI. The cost to the Government of capping regulated rail fares at RPI+0% for the next five years is estimated to be around £700m (in nominal prices).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry grouped question UIN 95 question first answered 03/06/2015 10:01:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

348581

registered interest
date	04/06/2015
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 estimate he has made of average change in regulated rail fares between 2015 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Neath
tabling member printed	Christina Rees
uin	1240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2015 answer text <p>We have committed to capping regulated rail fares at the Retail Price Inflation (RPI) for five years from 2016 and we have also stopped operators increasing individual regulated fares by up to 2% more than RPI. Train operators will use the July 2015 RPI figure, published in August, to set regulated rail fares for 2016. Data on these fares will be published in December 2015.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/06/2015 11:26:56 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4525 label Biography information for Christina Rees

381561

registered interest
date	16/06/2015
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 simplify fares structures set by the Northern franchisee; and what funding his Department has allocated to developing and rolling out the Smart in the North programme.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	2634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>We are keen to see a Northern transport network that makes it simple and easy to travel around and between city regions. Through the Northern franchise competition we have merged the previously separate fares areas and are asking bidders to propose plans to simplify fares structures. We are also developing, in conjunction with Transport for the North, a business case for funding a smart ticketing scheme on the northern rail network that could integrate with city region smart ticketing products.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 22/06/2015 10:52:35 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

385141

registered interest
date	23/06/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 22 June 2015 to Question 2634, and with reference to the Northern franchise invitation to tender of 27 February 2015, whether his plans to enable the simplification of regulated fares structures within the consolidated fares baskets that invitation to tender were dependent on bidders' use of the flex mechanism; and what alternative mechanisms are available to bidders for that franchise for the purpose of simplifying overall regulated fare structures.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	3925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>Our plans for simplifying regulated fares within the fares baskets for the Northern Invitation To Tender do not depend solely on bidders' use of the flex mechanism. Whilst the flex mechanism provides one means for train operators to rebalance fares over time to remove the sharp jumps and anomalies that currently occur, fares simplification can nonetheless take place within the Northern franchise without the use of the flex. We expect to work with the future Northern franchisee to explore which approaches would be most appropriate to phase out these anomalies over the long-term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 29/06/2015 11:28:15 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

387498

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2015 to Question 3925, whether the potential fares simplification that can take place on the Northern franchise without the use of flex will include regulated fares.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	5421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>Fares within the Northern franchise are both regulated and unregulated so any simplification will include both types of fares.　 Whilst the Northern Invitation To Tender envisaged the use of the flex to gradually rebalance regulated fares in order to remove the sharp jumps in fares that currently occur, some fares simplification can be undertaken without the use of the flex.　 We expect to work with the future Northern franchisee to explore which alternative approaches would be most appropriate to phase out these anomalies in the long-term.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 07/07/2015 14:42:36 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

391529

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2015 to Question 4820 on railways: performance standards, what permission his Department has granted to Govia Thameslink Railway to (a) vary ticket prices and (b) enter into an agreement with Transport for London to share the same-pay-as-you-go fares on suburban rail routes in London.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	7902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Transport for (a) have not given Govia Thameslink Railway any permission to vary ticket prices, but for (b) there are agreements in place which govern Oyster/PAYG fares within the Travelcard area.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/09/2015 08:46:28 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan