Railways: Nationalisation
Commons · Question 14053 · Tabled 29 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 2 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Sir Ashley Fox
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 22 June 2026 to Question 10032, what proportion of the expected savings from public ownership are attributable to management fees.
Answer
Answered by Keir Mather, 2 Jul 2026
Moving train operating companies back into public ownership will end decades of fragmentation and waste. Train operators in public ownership are beginning to work closer together with Network Rail, forming integrated railways and shifting from adversarial...