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Railways: Government Assistance

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 2 February 2026UIN 107162

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2026 to Question 99932, whether the estimates referred to in that Answer are held in a form that allows net Government support per passenger journey to be calculated, and whether she will publish those estimates and the underlying calculations.

Answered by Keir Mather

The Department does not intend to publish estimates and underlying calculations.  The Department does not routinely publish forecasts of passenger revenue due to the level of uncertainty inherent in those forecasts.  The ORR publish data that enables this information to be derived on a backwards looking basis.

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