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They cannot access the existing benefit.

I was slightly confused, because they do not get a free ticket; they get a 50 per cent reduction.

I would therefore have expected them still to have a ticket so that, irrespective of where their journey ended, they would be able to present the ticket that they had purchased.

Do they then get on the train having not paid any fare at all?

I think that we can agree that it would be interesting to consider those points, and then we will have the information available when we next consider the petition.

I thank David and Nicoletta for coming along. Their evidence is much appreciated and will certainly help to inform our consideration of the petition. I suspend the meeting briefly to allow a change of witnesses.

That is helpful. Thank you.

Please do.

If he were to stray beyond the precincts of Harthill station, he would survive with impunity, but you would be prosecuted for anything that he might then do.

We will keep the petition open, and we will proceed on the basis of the two suggestions that have been made.

We can do what you suggest.

Are members content to incorporate all those suggestions?

Members indicated agreement.