Railways: Nationalisation
Commons · Question 4221 · Tabled 4 Sep 2024 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 13 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Wendy Morton
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of determining the sequencing of when train operating companies will be brought into public ownership by their operational performance.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 13 Sep 2024
The Government has been clear that passenger train operations will transfer to a public-sector operator as current contracts end or reach their contractual break point, avoiding the need to pay compensation to the current operators. The Secretary of State...