Ms Anne Graham:

It is very hard to design a system to meet that very intense peak at the Christmas period. What would those drivers be doing for the rest of the year? Would they just be operating for those few hours in the Christmas period? As I said before, we want to encourage and incentivise drivers to do those later hours. We did that through the fare change by having a higher increase for those evening hours compared to the daytime hours. If that is something we need to do further, we will certainly review that at the next fare review, which we do every two years.