Overview

• Robert Jenrick filmed himself confronting three men who forced their way through ticket barriers at Stratford station, accused them of lawbreaking and handed one offender to British Transport Police while blaming Mayor Sadiq Khan’s inaction
• TfL’s 500-strong uniformed enforcement team will be supplemented by an expanded cadre of professional investigators under its new fare evasion strategy
• Fare evasion reached 3.4% between April 2023 and March 2024, more than double TfL’s 1.5% target and accounting for an estimated £130m annual loss
• Mayor Sadiq Khan increased the penalty for fare dodging from £80 to £100 in March to strengthen the network’s deterrent
• The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association criticised Jenrick’s ‘performative interventions’ and called for proper resourcing of British Transport Police rather than political stunts