Public Transport: Costs Chris Grayling To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimate he has made of the change in cost to the passenger of public transport in real terms in each year since 1997, broken down by mode of transport. Gillian Merron Table 1 shows in index form bus and coach fares and rail fares in real terms in each year since 1997. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Bus and coach fares|Rail fares| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |1997 |100.0 |100.0 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |1998 |99.9 |100.7 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |1999 |101.9 |102.8 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2000 |103.0 |101.5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2001 |105.4 |103.6 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2002 |106.9 |104.2 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2003 |108.2 |103.0 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2004 |110.5 |103.9 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2005 |114.6 |105.1 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006 |112.6 |105.9 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |Source:Office for National Statistics| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Between 1997 and 2006 the real cost of bus and coach fares has increased by 12.6 per cent. and rail fares have increased by 5.9 per cent.