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registered interest
date	11/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Directly Operated Railways will publish an annual report for 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	10026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>Yes. Directly Operated Railways are planning to publish their annual report and accounts for 2014/15 in October 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 21/09/2015 11:24:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

418334

registered interest
date	10/09/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212595, when he plans for his Department's review of the future activities of Directly Operated Railways to be concluded.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	9868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department is currently considering the long term options for securing provision to discharge the Secretary of State’s duties under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the meantime the existing management team at Directly Operated Railways are fully engaged in supporting the Department on the Franchising Direct Awards Programme. The focus of their work is to ensure that the company is ready to step in as the Secretary of State’s operator of last resort should any of the remaining Direct Awards fail to reach a successful commercial conclusion.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The company is also on standby to mobilise an operator of last resort company in the event that an existing rail franchise is terminated and is not immediately replaced.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/09/2015 12:53:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

101991

registered interest
date	30/10/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what Directly Operated Railways' staff numbers and overall budget are projected to be in each year between 2013-14 and 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	212595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Directly Operated Railways’ (DOR) staff numbers were 12 (8.3 FTE) in 2013/14 and are forecast to be 6 (3.5 FTE) at the end of 2014/15.</p><p /><p>DOR’s gross costs were £3.65 million in 2013/14 and are forecast to be £2.06 million in 2014/15. These costs are met by a combination of management charges to their subsidiary company (East Coast) and charges to the Department for Transport in respect of work undertaken on the rail franchising programme.</p><p /><p>No forecasts are available beyond 31 March 2015 at present as the future activities of the company will be reviewed following the sale of the East Coast business later this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/11/2014 15:24:46 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

91544

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2014, Official Report, column 402W, on directly operated railways, what the mobilisation costs incurred by directly operated railways were in each franchise competition since 6 May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	208918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>Directly Operated Railways (DOR) has incurred mobilisation costs in respect of two rail franchises since 6 May 2010. These are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 – InterCity West Coast - £1,020,000</p><p>2013/14 – Greater Western - £787,000</p><p> </p><p>Prior to 2010 DOR also incurred mobilisation costs of £5.6 million with respect to the failure of the InterCity East Coast franchise in 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/10/2014 16:47:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

90381

registered interest
date	02/09/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Directly Operated Railways
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	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.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	207864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>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 <a href="http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1011824.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/1011824.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/09/2014 12:48:06 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood