INDEMNIFICATION OF TRAIN OPERATING COMPANIES DURING INDUSTRIAL ACTION

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That this House notes with concern the Government's continuation of a scheme, started by the Strategic Rail Authority, which indemnifies train operating companies against operating losses caused by strike action; declares the scheme to be a very clear intervention in industrial relations by a Government which consistently claims to be opposed to such interventions; further notes that £23 million has been paid to train operating companies in compensation for industrial action; and therefore calls on the Government to abandon this ill-conceived scheme immediately.