- Reference: 2017/4959
- Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
- Meeting date: 14 December 2017
A constituent has asked me to raise this question with you. "A student is a student and if they have to travel back home to London at weekends they too should be given the discounts. This is a discriminatory practice against London based students who have to leave home for studying at universities outside of London. For example a student from Reading living in halls and studying in London gets TfL discounts and Rail Card discounts, a London student studying in Reading does not get the same and is disadvantaged (cost disadvantaged) for having a family home in London. In...