Rolling Stock: Procurement

(asked on 8th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 7 July (HL Deb, col 93–4), whether they consider that local government is capable of assessing the financial and associated risks that go with entering into leasing deals concerning new rolling stock.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th July 2015

Some local authorities already have such expertise and have successfully procured rolling stock in the past. If an authority were looking to do so for the first time then there are a number of expert advisors it could look to, and the Department for Transport would be happy to engage with local authorities to discuss rolling stock leasing.

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