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Kent Coast Railway Line

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that clarification. I think he just confirmed that the fare increase is very substantial—we are talking £9 for the train alone. Hon. Members might be interested to know that someone can travel 391 miles for £10 in Bulgaria. Indeed, I have—admittedly not recently—travelled on Bulgarian trains, and I can confirm that they do run and are spacious. For £10, someone can travel 200 miles in Poland, 131 miles in the Czech Republic and 61 miles in France. We then get to the UK, where someone can travel 23.8 miles at that price. I suspect that for someone is travelling on a high-speed train, it is significantly less than 23.8 miles.