Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 1 and 21 November 2018 to Questions 183470 and 191425 on Railways and on Aviation: Fares, what proportion of the UK rail network will be covered by smart ticketing by the end of 2018.

I refer the Honourable Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough to the answer to PQ 191425 that I gave last week.