Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 78720
South Western Railway: Nationalisation
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Mr Richard Holden
Conservative — Basildon and Billericay
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the press notice entitled New dawn for rail as South Western services return to public hands, published on 25 May 2025, on what evidential basis her Department calculated that public ownership
Answer
Simon LightwoodPrivate sector train operating companies are paid fixed and performance-based fees are set out in their National Rail Contracts with the Department. Operations are being transferred into public ownership as their National Rail Contract expire, meaning the...
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