Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 6 February 2014.
Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that single people under the age of 35 are being hit particularly hard by the cost of living crisis and are at the greatest risk of having extremely low incomes. Does the Department recognise that high fares make it even more difficult for them to find work and stay in work, particularly if it is only part-time work which is increasingly what is on offer to them these days?