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date	01/11/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	East Coast Rail Franchise
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the profits remitting to the Exchequer from the LNER direct operations of the East Coast Mainline franchise.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	8584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>LNER generates a surplus of revenue over costs. Updated forecasts for this surplus are provided by LNER and reviewed by DfT each quarter. An element of the profit is retained by LNER for franchise development but the majority is remitted to Government in the following three ways:</p><p> </p><ol><li><p>Premium paid to DfT which is a taxable cost</p></li><li><p>Corporation tax on the surplus less premium paid to HMRC</p></li><li><p>Dividends from retained profit paid to DfT</p></li></ol><p> </p><p>The three elements are identifiable in the statutory accounts filed by LNER. The forecasts are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 05/11/2019 12:25:24 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

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date	28/10/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Tree Felling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 28 October (HL39), what estimate they have made of the total area, in hectares, of trackside vegetation cleared by Network Rail during the past five years.
tabling member printed	Lord Krebs
uin	HL464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>Network Rail (NR) is one of Britain’s largest landowners, responsible for 20,000 km of track and 52,000 hectares of land in its estate. Since 2016, NR has recorded operational vegetation management across 9,749 hectares. Total figures in hectares are not available for before 2016 as some vegetation management was then recorded in track miles. Vegetation management on NR’s estate includes the removal of some trees where necessary, but also periodic trimming of trees or hedges.</p><p> </p><p>As a responsible landowner, NR must effectively manage the natural environment on its estate. It is currently developing a biodiversity strategy that will ensure the protection and enhancement of biodiversity while still ensuring the safety and performance of the railway.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 05/11/2019 13:34:41 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3736 label Biography information for Lord Krebs