Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will place in the Library a copy of the benefits realisation map and profile for each rail franchise let by his Department in the last Parliament.

There were five franchises let in the last Parliament. The map and profile for four of these franchises are freely available online through the Government’s website.

As it would be resource intensive to produce copies of interactive maps, the relevant website addresses are:

First Great Western franchise: http://maps.dft.gov.uk/first-great-western/index.html

East Coast: http://maps.dft.gov.uk/east-coast/

Essex Thameside: http://maps.dft.gov.uk/essex-thameside/

Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern Franchise: http://maps.dft.gov.uk/tsgn/