‘What you’re being told isn’t the case!’: Speaker rebukes minister after question on ticket office closures

In transport department questions today, Speaker Lindsay Hoyle rebuked rail minister Huw Merriman after he claimed that “no currently staffed station will become unstaffed as a result of changes” to ticket offices.

Sir Lindsay said: “Could I just gently say Chorley matters to me as well. But the ticket office is open all day. The proposal is only to have somebody available 9 to 4, which is half the time the ticket office was. So please take up for the people with disabilities, quite rightly. But don’t forget what you’re being told isn’t the case”.

It came after Labour MP Holly Lynch asked the minister: “Why on Earth is the government allowing the closure of ticket offices?”