Member

Amendment 8 would require GBR to consult on its proposed organisational structure before exercising its statutory functions. The Government are working hard, quickly and to an already ambitious timeline to transform our fragmented rail sector and deliver the change that we know users of the railway desperately need. Mandating a public consultation on the proposed organisational structure of GBR would add significant delays to reform without necessarily adding any meaningful public input. I am not aware of any other recent consultation on the organisational structure of a new arm’s-length body, and nor has any previous railways Act that has reorganised the railways set out a structure in the way that is suggested.