Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what criteria were used to determine the allocation of funding for new railway ticket gates.

Train operators submitted proposals for consideration and these were assessed primarily on the basis of value for money. This included forecast revenue benefits and whole-life costs; deliverability and achievability of implementation timescales; local operational considerations, such as levels of anti-social behaviour and station layout constraints; and interactions with existing or planned pay-as-you-go ticketing schemes.