Ministers in the last Administration approved reductions in ticket office opening hours under the Minor and Major Change procedures at approximately 300 stations. They approved closures of rail ticket offices between May 2005 and May 2010 as part of schemes which also led to the station being closed for use, as follows:"As part of the construction of Liverpool South Parkway station, which has a ticket office, the stations and ticket offices at Allerton and Garston stations were closed.""As part of the Thameslink Programme, the station and ticket office at Kings Cross Thameslink was closed and replaced by a new station with ticket office at St Pancras International.""To enable the construction of a new Docklands Light Railway line, the stations and ticket offices at North Woolwich, Silvertown and Custom House were closed."