Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce the cost of long distance railway fares; and what assessment they have made of the possibility of tapering the cost per mile of journeys after a certain distance for long distance fares

Rail fares are influenced by multiple different factors, and there are a range of Advance fares available for many long-distance journeys that are priced highly competitively.

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

As part of this we will extend the single leg pricing trial to the rest of LNER’s network, making fares more flexible for passengers, and trial demand-based pricing on some LNER services.