Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the total expected cost saving and revenue generation opportunities from the reorganisation of the railway industry into Great British Railways.

The creation of Great British Railways (GBR) will reduce fragmentation and improve whole-system decision making in the rail industry. Integration of track and train is expected to lead to significant cost efficiencies. A large share of these efficiencies are expected to derive from improved coordination in day-to-day decision making. Detailed design decisions will influence how these benefits are realised and in what form.

Rail reform is expected to improve passenger experience through improvements to rail performance due to the establishment of GBR and other provisions in the Railways Bill. This may facilitate greater demand and revenue in the long-term.

Further detail on the impacts of GBR can be found in the Railways Bill Impact Assessment.