Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 14053

Railways: Nationalisation

Tabled: 29 June 2026
Answered: 2 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Sir Ashley Fox

ConservativeBridgwater

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

Keir Mather
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...

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