Directly Operated Railways
(asked on 2nd September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what total mobilisation costs have been incurred by each franchise operated by Directly Operated Railways since 6 May 2010.
This question was answered on 5th September 2014
The only franchise operated by Directly Operated Railways (DOR) since 6 May 2010 is InterCity East Coast. The costs for mobilising DOR to take over the running of that franchise in November 2009, as reported by the National Audit Office (NAO), were £5.6 million. The full NAO report was published 22 March 2011 and is available on the NAO website at http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1011824.pdf.