Rolling Stock: Procurement

(asked on 24th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Office of Rail and Road will be tasked with ensuring that costs in the procurement of rolling stock will be controlled; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 2nd July 2021

The Office for Rail and Road is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the operation of the remedies put in place by the Competition Commission in 2009 in respect of the passenger rolling stock market. This includes a package of remedies that ensures effective competition in the rolling stock market which the ORR is responsible for monitoring.

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