Sentences with phrase «rail franchises»

• The Scottish government will have power to allow public sector operators to bid for rail franchises funded and specified by Scottish ministers.

Adonis said he would have felt compelled to step down anyway over the transport secretary's decision to bail out Stagecoach and Virgin on the East Coast rail franchise.

Track and train operations will be brought together in new rail franchises under plans announced by the Transport Secretary on Tuesday

Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises.

[5] He was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

She was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

Richard Brown's review of rail franchising for the Department for Transport stated that «quality has never been a determining factor in selecting the winning bid».

The abandoned west coast main line rail franchise could be followed by the scrapping of the Department for Transport's controversial planned high speed rail network linking London with Birmingham, its opponents are hoping.

Well, on longer rail franchises, and on High Speed 2 (HS2), Theresa Villiers (TP, February) has done a good job so far.

The Department for Transport has been told to «get its house in order» by MPs following the bungling of the InterCity West Coast rail franchise competition.

The Transport Department argues that as the Welsh Government manages the Wales and Borders rail franchise, it should be responsible for repaying the cost.

The Welsh Lib Dems are urging the Welsh Government to use its newly devolved powers around rail franchising to plan for the future with a Welsh Rolling Stock Strategy, investing in new train carriages and ensuring the future growth of our rail services.

Philp has called for the Government to take control of the Southern Rail franchise and for cross-party support in ending disputes between Southern Rail and the RMT Union.

Eluned Parrott AM, the Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Minister, has welcomed the news that the Welsh rail franchise will be devolved to the Welsh Government and that the Valleys lines electrification will go ahead.

For some it's fear of what further cuts could do, for example damaging growth in the last two years before an election or leading to costly mistakes like the West Coast rail franchise debacle.

Questioned by @stevedouble, the Transport Secretary appear to rule out a separate Devon & Cornwall rail franchise (a hare set running nearly three years ago by George Osborne).

Virgin blocks rail franchise award going to FirstGroup as backbenchers rebel over Heathrow third runway

The next East Midlands rail franchise could see the service split in either Nottingham or Sheffield, in one of a number of proposals being considered by the government's transport secretary, Chris Grayling.

The National Audit Office has concluded that high levels of disruption for passengers mean that, to date, the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail franchise has «not delivered value for money».

The Transport Secretary has also ordered two independent reviews to be undertaken urgently: the first into what went wrong with the West Coast competition and the lessons to be learned, the second into the wider DfT rail franchise programme, both overseen by leading business figures.

Advising on leveraged finance and operating leases for various assets, including mining equipment for Leighton Holdings and Felix Resources, merchant vessels for Toll Holdings and rolling stock for the Hillside, Bayside and Swanston rail franchises in Victoria

In his resignation letter, he wrote that, as well as Brexit, the recent decision to end the InterCity East Coast rail franchise three years early, at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds, would also have forced him to quit.

That's why it's right to put the East Coast Mainline back in private hands Main From Tony Lodge: Why new rail franchises must not become new railopolies»

Yet, astonishingly, Stagecoach has not only been bailed out, it remains on the shortlist for the next three rail franchises.

However, I would have been obliged to resign from the commission at this point anyway because of the transport secretary's indefensible decision to bail out the Stagecoach / Virgin East Coast rail franchise.

Andy McDonald, shadow transport secretary, criticises Conservatives after analysis finds only three out of 29 rail franchises will be running services

On the publicly run East Coast rail franchise, seventy - nine per cent of passengers are satisfied that there is sufficient room on trains, compared to an average of 67 % across all rail lines.

But as well as Brexit, he also called the decision to end the East Coast rail franchise three years early a mistake.

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John Bercow and Theresa Villiers blast Government after Commons is last to hear of nationalisation of East Coast Rail Franchise

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