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Train operating companies should offer "premium economy" carriages to ease overcrowding, Alok Sharma has said. The Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Treasury Minister Mark Hoban told Parliament that Chiltern Railways had offered its customers a no-frills version of first class for £20, and urged other operators to do the same.
David Cameron has approved the appointment of a raft of new parliamentary private secretaries for government ministers.
09/03/2012 in Rail Transport
Train operating companies should offer "premium economy" carriages to ease overcrowding, Alok Sharma has said. The Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Treasury Minister Mark Hoban told Parliament that Chiltern Railways had offered its customers a no-frills version of first class for £20, and urged other operators to do the same.
10/09/2010
David Cameron has approved the appointment of a raft of new parliamentary private secretaries for government ministers.
22/01/2013 on BBC Daily Politics
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