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Government Response To The Brown Review Of The Rail Franchising Programme
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Book Synopsis Government Response to the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Great Britain: Department for Transport
Download or read book Government Response to the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Great Britain: Department for Transport and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated July 2013. The Brown review published as Cm. 8526 (February 2013, ISBN 9780101852623)
Book Synopsis The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Richard Brown
Download or read book The Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Richard Brown and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The competition held by the Department for Transport to award a new InterCity West Coast franchise in 2012 was intended to be the first in the most extensive programme of franchising since privatisation. Significant errors were made by the Department during the competition, which not only caused the cancellation of that franchise award at considerable public expense but also called into question the remaining franchising programme. This report is the second of two independent reviews commissioned by the Government, by Richard Brown, the Chairman of Eurostar. It concludes that franchising is a fundamentally sound approach for securing the passenger railway services on which so many people rely. His recommendations include: that the franchising programme should be restarted as soon as possible, but at a pace that both the department and the industry can sustain; that franchise terms should be determined by the circumstances and size of each individual franchise; proposals to strengthen and simplify the bidding and evaluation process for each franchise; proposals for the financial and contractual structure of future franchises, including in relation to risk allocation and capital requirements; and that the government should plan to devolve responsibility for further English franchises to the relevant authorities. Mr Brown also makes recommendations on how to strengthen the department's capability to manage the future franchising programme, echoing the findings of Sam Laidlaw's independent inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the InterCity West Coast competition. The review also recommends that the Government should determine, by February, plans for the three franchise competitions which were put on hold
Book Synopsis Supplement to the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Supplement to the Brown Review of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated January 2013. Supplement to Cm. 8526 (ISBN 9780101852623) fulfilling the Secretary of State's commitment to publish paragraphs 8.13 to 8.20 which were redacted from the original report, along with a corrected Appendix E
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conundrum written by Richard Bacon and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government failure is affecting everyone. The single mum worried sick by a tax credit demand from HMRC to 'repay' thousands of pounds she never received; the family whose holiday was ruined because the Passport Office couldn't issue passports in time; the school that couldn't open at the start of term because CRB checks were being carried out by an organisation in meltdown; the farmers led to bankruptcy and even suicide by a Kafkaesque system for administering farm payments; and rail operators facing an uncertain future because the Department for Transport inadvertently landed the whole rail franchising system in chaos. Why is government getting it so wrong? Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope delve into the astonishing world of cock-ups and catastrophes and ponder why those at the top continue to fall short.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215091353 Total Pages :21 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 600 - Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts
Download or read book HC 600 - Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time we discussed rail franchising was in 2012, in the wake of the collapsed competition for the InterCity West Coast franchise. We are encouraged that, since then, the Department for Transport has strengthened its capability to let franchises, but there are still gaps in its ability to then manage the contracts effectively. The Department's increased focus on the passenger experience is also welcome, but it is unclear when passengers themselves will actually see the benefits. Furthermore, the Department has not yet developed the partnerships with operators that are required to support innovation, improve efficiency and improve services for passengers. Successful rail franchising depends on strong interest from the market and effective competition but there are barriers to entry to the UK market and the possibility that current participants in the market may drop out. Any reduction to the current level of competition is a major risk to securing value for money for the taxpayer. Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the Department is to manage the complex interdependencies between passenger rail franchises, the infrastructure that train services run on and the introduction of new fleets of trains to the network. Uncertainty about infrastructure work has resulted in delays to franchise competitions and the Department will have to rely on potentially expensive changes to franchises during the life of contracts. The Department's role is to provide a strategic lead for the complex rail system but it has not yet shown that it has embraced this role. It needs to provide a coherent strategic vision and stronger leadership to ensure that the investment decisions it makes now do not result in increased costs in the long term.
Author :Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780101547222 Total Pages :13 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (472 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure by : Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure written by Great Britain. Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215053190 Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (531 download)
Book Synopsis Cancellation of the InterCity West Coast Franchise Competition by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Cancellation of the InterCity West Coast Franchise Competition written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarking on an ambitious, perhaps unachievable, reform of rail franchising, in haste, on the UK's most complex piece of railway was irresponsible. Many of the problems with the franchise competition, detailed in the Laidlaw report, reflect very badly on civil servants at the DfT. However, ministers approved a complex - perhaps unworkable - franchising policy at the same time as overseeing major cuts to the Department's resources. This was a recipe for failure which the DfT must learn from urgently. While the Department has already published a response to the Laidlaw report which Mr Laidlaw described as 'very encouraging', and has initiated a review of franchise MPs warn that a number of matters remain to be adequately resolved. The Committee calls on the Secretary of State and the Department for Transport to: explain why ministers and senior officials were misled about how subordinated loan facilities were calculated, if necessary after disciplinary proceedings against staff have concluded; complete a full email capture and get to the bottom of whether or not any officials manipulated the outcome of the competition to ensure First Group were awarded the contracts; provide a comprehensive breakdown of costs arising from the cancellation of the West Coast Mainline franchise competition. The Committee also wants to establish what lessons current and future ministers must learn from this episode
Download or read book The transport debate written by Shaw, Jon and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when transport is high on the political agenda and government decision-making is being vigorously scrutinised, there is a need for an incisive and accessible analysis of the key policy issues. This book is a highly readable introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field. The authors celebrate the advantages of a modern transport system, but argue that years of poorly conceived and executed transport policy have resulted in Britain’s transport system being far worse than it should be. They show that a substandard transport system creates economic, social and environmental costs, but demonstrate how these can be addressed through affordable and politically deliverable changes. Using a refreshingly novel approach, Shaw and Docherty use the familiar idea of the journey as the basis for their discussion. The book follows members of the Smith family as they uncover a wide array of transport issues, including why the problems we all encounter as we travel around actually come about; which policy trade-offs were responsible for creating them in the first place; what impacts we all have to suffer as a result; and what we can do to fix them. This lively and engaging approach will make the book ideal for a wide readership.
Download or read book Elites on Trial written by Glenn Morgan and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elites are 'on trial' firstly for their role in the past and shaping the context for the crisis, secondly in terms of how they responded to the crisis and finally in terms of what role they are playing in the aftermath. This book is concerned with what happens when elites are challenged by crisis and helps us understand 'elites on trial'.
Book Synopsis Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme by : Amyas Morse
Download or read book Reform of the Rail Franchising Programme written by Amyas Morse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Department for Transport Publisher :Stationery Office/Tso ISBN 13 :9780108510113 Total Pages :34 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Reforming Rail Franchising by : Great Britain. Department for Transport
Download or read book Reforming Rail Franchising written by Great Britain. Department for Transport and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reforming rail franchises (DfT, 2010) included proposals for longer franchises, less detailed specifications, more private investment and alternative risk/reward mechanisms. This document outlines the general thrust of responses to the proposals and gives the resulting revised Government policies in the areas of: franchise length; franchise risk and reward; performance bonds and parental guarantees; specification on train services; crowding; service quality; other government bodies; investment; pre-qualification; after qualification; franchise award; managing and performance.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215032317 Total Pages :15 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (323 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document sets out the Government's reply to the Committee's report (HCP 1354, session 2005-06; ISBN 9780215031105), published in November 2006, which examined the current rail franchising system, focusing on the coherence of its objectives, the effectiveness of the process for awarding franchises and the management of franchise agreements, and whether more competition and vertical integration is needed. Amongst its responses, the Government notes its disagreement with the Committee's conclusions that it is engaged in "the dogmatic pursuit of competition where competition is not possible" in the current rail franchising system.
Book Synopsis The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215006530 Total Pages :23 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (65 download)
Book Synopsis Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure by : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee
Download or read book Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Transport, Local Government and the Regions Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passenger Rail Franchising and the Future of Railway Infrastructure
Book Synopsis Investing in Britain's future by : Great Britain: H.M. Treasury
Download or read book Investing in Britain's future written by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper the Government announces an increase in capital spending plans by £3 billion a year, from 2015, which means an additional £18 billion of investment over the next parliament. The Government is taking a long-term approach to infrastructure, to overcome decades of short-term decision making and uncertainty in funding, financing and failures in delivery. Plans include over £70 billion of investment in transport, over £20 billion in schools and £10 billion in science, housing and flood defences. Specific commitments include funding for HS2, the biggest programme of investment in roads since the 1970s, and superfast broadband provision will be expanded so 95 per cent of UK premises will have access to superfast broadband by 2017.Action is being taken to provide the support needed to enable up to £100 billion of private sector energy investment, including through the further roll-out and extension of the UK guarantees scheme. Lessons on successful project delivery will be learnt from the Olympics and similar examples.
