Asked by: Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy on restarting passenger flights of research by the International Air Transport Association that 48 per cent of people in the UK would be willing to travel within a month or two once covid-19 is under control.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Department for Transport has, and will continue, to strive to develop policy based on the best possible evidence.
Asked by: Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the cost of bus and rail travel.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
We have capped regulated rail 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.
The bus market outside London is deregulated and decisions regarding setting the level of fares, is primarily a commercial matter for bus operators.