House of Lords written question – answered at on 9 July 2007.
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they intend to enable smartcard bus concession passes in England to be capable of use for paid-for tickets for other smartcard-enabled services, including rail.
The Department for Transport's preferred option, subject to consultation and discussions with suppliers, is to require that the English national concessionary travel pass must be an ITSO-compliant smartcard. It would be possible to load other ITSO products on these smartcards. These products could include prepaid tickets for other services that used ITSO smartcard readers.
The Government have specified the introduction of ITSO smartcard ticketing in the South West Trains franchise, in the newly awarded East Midlands and West Midlands franchises and the specifications for the Cross Country and the InterCity East Coast franchises.
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