Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to advance a programme of single ticketing across the railways.

We have been clear in the Plan for Rail we want to simplify the current mass of complicated fares and tickets, whilst protecting affordable turn up and go tickets and season tickets.

We continue to develop trials to facilitate the ambition for simpler fares, including single leg pricing, to deliver better value and flexibility for passengers. We launched a trial of single leg pricing on a number of LNER routes in 2020 and this fare structure is still in operation on those routes.