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Author : Amyas Morse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786040131
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Railroad companies
ISBN : 9780215091352
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 : Richard Brown,Great Britain: Department for Transport
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0101852622
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
Author : Great Britain: Department for Transport
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0101867824
Dated July 2013. The Brown review published as Cm. 8526 (February 2013, ISBN 9780101852623)
Author : Sean McCartney,John Stittle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000880960
The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous component parts and sold off to private sector interests. The result was a highly fragmented industry that was structurally unsound and operationally dysfunctional. This authoritative volume presents an enlightening portrait of an industry that is less efficient, more costly and still more dependent on state subsidy today than its nationalised predecessor. The nine chapters in this work present a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of how and why the industry has become so dysfunctional and costly, supported by detailed financial analysis and industry examples. Seven chapters comprise a series of peer-reviewed academic papers by Professor McCartney and Dr Stittle and published in leading international journals over the period 2004–2017 which analyse selected key segments of the privatised industry: where appropriate, updates are provided at the end of these chapters outlining developments since initial publication relevant to the analysis therein. Two chapters are published here for the first time: Chapter 7 reviews the performance of the freight sector, while Chapter 1 ‘bookends’ the volume by providing first, an account of how rail privatisation was conceived and implemented in the 1980s/90s, and then reviews the impact of the pandemic and the proposals of the Williams-Shapps White Paper of 2021 which, if enacted, will effectively end the Major government’s experiment. Going far beyond the usual superficial analysis of the topic, this volume will be of significant interest to researchers and advanced students of accounting, economics, business history, transport studies, as well as industry and specialised business interests in transport and privatisation.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Committee Of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Border security
ISBN : 9780215091345
On current projections the Home Office's e-Borders programme and its successors will cost over a billion pounds, be delivered 8 years late and not provide the benefits expected for transport carriers and passengers. A major reason for this delay was the termination by the Department in 2010 of its e-Borders contract with Raytheon. This had required Raytheon to deliver its own solution to meet the Department's objectives to a fixed price and timescale which turned out to be unrealistic as government had detailed and evolving requirements, and wanted high assurance that the proposed solution would work. The Department was emphatic that our borders are secure. However, the Department needs to accept that its assertion that it checks 100% of passports is both imprecise and unrealistic due to the complexity of our border. It is now five years since the e-Borders contract was cancelled yet the capabilities delivered so far still fall short of what was originally envisaged. Since 2010 the Major Projects Authority has issued seven warnings about these programmes. The Department's complacency about progress to date increases our concerns about whether the programme will be completed by 2019 as the Department now promises, and whether tangible benefits for border security, transport carriers and passengers will result.
Author : Great Britain. Department for Transport,Great Britain: Department for Transport Staff,Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher : Stationery Office/Tso
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0108510115
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,Great Britain: Department for Transport Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 010185272X
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
Author : Great Britain. HM Treasury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474131468
Author : Janice Morphet
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529209600
In this comprehensive account, Janice Morphet analyses the role and use of outsourcing within the UK public sector since the mid-1970s and illustrates the impact it has had on ideology, policy narratives and public expectations in the present.
Author : Great Britain. National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0102954313
This NAO report (HC 1047, session 2007-09), examines rail franchises and the impact they have had on franchises competition; the taxpayer; the passenger and the approach to managing rail franchises in general. Passenger rail services are provided by train operating companies under franchise agreements which generally run 7-10 years. Whilst responsibility for the operation and condition of the track rests with Network Rail, the Department of Transport has ultimate responsibility where it affects passengers and has taken oversight responsibility for passenger rail franchising following the abolition of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2005. The National Audit Office has set out the following recommendations in respect of rail franchises, including: on letting franchises, regional decision making bodies, should have greater involvement; where bids for rail franchises occur, alternative options should be taken into consideration, such as value for money and affordability; that there should be transparency on financial support for franchises with information on how fares cover the overall costs of passenger rail services and the extent of Government support; that there should also be greater transparency on service quality standards; the Government, when negotiating extra passenger capacity, needs to adjust the contract revenue target where appropriate, so that it can better engage in commercial negotiations; also the Department should staff the National Networks Group adequately and not rely unduly on agency staff, given the strategic importance of rail franchising and the potential to reduce direct subsidies.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Corporations
ISBN : 9780215091208
A six year investigation by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has resulted in Google paying a further £130 million to settle its corporation tax liabilities over the last 10 years. This vindicates the previous Committee's concerns in 2012 and 2013 that Google did not appear to be paying the full tax it owed in the UK. However, in the absence of full transparency over the details of this settlement and how it was reached we cannot judge whether it is fair to taxpayers. The sum paid by Google seems disproportionately small when compared with the size of Google's business in the UK, reinforcing our concerns that the rules governing where corporation tax is paid by multinational companies do not produce a fair outcome. Google's stated desire for greater tax simplicity and transparency is at odds with the complex operational structure it has created which appears to be directed at minimising its tax liabilities. Google admits that this structure will not change as a result of this settlement.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Nervous system
ISBN : 9780215091185
Over 4 million people in England have a neurological condition. Services for people with these conditions are not consistently good enough, and there remains wide variation across the country in access, outcomes and patient experience. As well as affecting patients, poor care has implications for the NHS; for example, it costs �70 million to deal with emergency admissions of epilepsy patients and many of these admissions are likely to result from shortcomings in care. Neurological services remain poorly integrated with a lack of joint commissioning of health and social care. Over 40% of people with a neurological condition do not think that local services work well together, and only 12% of people have a written care plan to help coordinate their care. There has been some progress in implementing the recommendations that the previous Committee made in 2012, including the appointment of a national clinical director for adult neurology and some improvements in data. However, these changes have not yet led to demonstrable improvements in services and outcomes for patients. It is clear that neurological conditions are not a priority for the Department of Health and NHS England, and we are concerned that the progress that has been made may not be sustained. We therefore intend to review the position again later in this Parliament.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Railroads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000049664751
Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : Stationery Office
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0102981426
In this early examination of progress by the Department for Transport in planning for the High Speed 2 rail network, the National Audit Office expresses reservations about the Department's business case. The Department has poorly articulated the strategic need for a transformation in rail capacity and how High Speed 2 will help generate regional economic growth. The Department's methodology for appraising the project puts a high emphasis on journey-time savings, but the relationship between these savings and the strategic reasons for doing the project, such as rebalancing regional economies, is unclear. The benefit-cost ratio calculated for phase one has twice contained errors and the Department has been slow to carry out its own assurance of the underlying analysis. The most recent benefit-cost ratio (published in August 2012) is 1.4 to 1 but is likely to change as the ratio is sensitive to changes in data underpinning assumptions, such as GDP growth forecasts. It does not, however, reflect the Department's current assumption on the relationship between passenger numbers and GDP growth. The Department should also carry out research into how business travellers use their time on trains. HS2 Limited has also not yet analysed the effect on passenger demand, revenues and the benefit-cost ratio of charging passengers premium prices. The NAO estimates that there is a £3.3 billion funding gap over four years (2017-18 to 2020-21) which the government has yet to decide how to fill.