Railways: Concessions

(asked on 18th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have obtained a Disabled Person’s Railcard in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Huw Merriman Portrait
Huw Merriman
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 24th January 2023

The table below presents the number of one and three year disabled persons railcards issued annually from April 2017 to March 2022. Periodic data is also available from the Office of Rail and Road’s website which is available here:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/passenger-experience/disabled-persons-railcards/

Table: Number of existing and newly issued, and one year and three year Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) issued, Great Britain

Financial Year

Number of existing and newly issued DPRC in circulation as at 31 March

Number of one year DPRC issued

Number of three year DPRC issued

April 2017 to March 2018

222,616

108,402

39,656

April 2018 to March 2019

239,037

115,494

44,697

April 2019 to March 2020

246,336

115,518

46,465

April 2020 to March 2021

148,608

39,462

17,984

April 2021 to March 2022

218,448

106,219

47,780

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Disabled Persons Railcards (DPRC) in circulation and issued, (Table 4310) Notes: The number of issued DPRCs was severely impacted in the year April 2020 to March 2021 due to the COVID19 pandemic.

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