Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 4221

Railways: Nationalisation

Tabled: 4 September 2024
Answered: 13 September 2024

Question

Wendy Morton

Conservative — Aldridge-Brownhills

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

Simon Lightwood
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...
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