Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which companies conducted the contract scorecard evaluations for (a) Great Western Railway, (b) Chiltern, (c) CrossCountry, (d) East Midlands, (e) Greater Anglia, (f) c2c, (g) South Western Railway, (h) GTR, (i) TransPennine Express, (j) Avanti, (k) West Midlands Trains, (l) Southeastern.

Performance-Based Fee Scorecard evaluations for Emergency Measures Agreements, Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements and National Rail Contracts for all private train operators have used independent evaluators sourced through Arup, Atkins and Jacobs.