Member

The Bill apparently confirms that distinction. Part 3 of Schedule 2 excludes only GBR’s infrastructure function from the Subsidy Control Act, leaving ticket retailing fully subject to it. Given that confusion—in the view, at least, of the Independent Rail Retailers—it would be helpful if the Minister could clear that up in his response and make it clear that GBR’s retailing operation is absolutely subject to the Subsidy Control Act. If it is, for anybody to enforce that, we need transparent accounting data to show that that subsidy is not taking place. If the operation is buried within GBR’s overall activities and there is no transparent data, nobody will be able to tell whether it is being subsidised or not.