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Railways: Fares

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 10 December 2025UIN 96596

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2025 to Question 93855, if she will break down those (a) nominal and (b) real terms rises by year.

Answered by Keir Mather

The Office of Rail and Road publish annual statistics measuring the change in prices charged by train operating companies to rail passengers, normally introduced in March of each year. Table 7180 provides the average change in fares by regulated and unregulated tickets, for Great Britain, from 1995 to 2025. The data set also includes the Retail Prices Index from which real fare changes can be calculated. This can be found at the following link:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/finance/rail-fares/

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