Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what contractual arrangements for the leasing of rolling stock were agreed by his Department as part of the Govia Thameslink Railway National Rail Contract announced on 1 April 2022.
As a condition of signing the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern National Rail Contract, Govia Thameslink Railway was required to enter into contractual arrangements for the leasing of appropriate rolling stock. Units have been leased from a number of different rolling stock companies under varying terms.