The increase was revealed following a written Commons question from Labour MP for Newport East Jessica Morden.
The post was previously held by the Labour Newport East AM John Griffiths.
The former Tory minister was selected to stand in Newport East shortly before the 1997 General Election and is now Arts Minister.
There will be no services after 1900GMT east of Newport on trains heading for Gloucester, Bristol, Southampton or London.
Further east, Newport Gwent Dragons' birth was marred by in-fighting as Newport and Ebbw Vale briefly married and hurriedly divorced.
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He said that the station would broadcast to a potential audience of 800, 000 people, as far north as Merthyr Tydfil, across to Bridgend and east to Newport.
The new community to the east of Newport will be called Glan Llyn and the 600-acre site, which was acquired by St Modwen in 2004, includes plans for schools, a police station, new access roads, as well as health and leisure facilities.
Last November, the Welsh government announced its desire to create a new "super university" in south east Wales, combining the University of Wales Newport, Glamorgan University and Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Both councils say there is no appetite to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was recently proposed by an expert panel reporting to the assembly.
Both councils say there is no appetite for the cities to merge, but the notion of a south east Wales city region, driven by Cardiff but including Newport, was proposed by an expert panel reporting to the assembly last July.
After the Newport Folk Festival, Merritt will continue touring through August, playing dates on the East Coast and in Canada.
Newport council said it would be inappropriate to comment at a time when the Welsh government is examining how a south east Wales city-region might operate.
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