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1605725

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Great British Railways National HQ competition, in what way the public vote was taken into account in deciding the winning location; and if he will publish the results of that vote.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	169341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The decision was taken based on the assessment of Expression of Interest applications against the six published selection criteria (alignment to levelling up principles; connected and easy to get to; opportunities for GBR; value for money; railway heritage and links to the network; and public support) and the result of the public vote. Derby’s application scored highest in the critical assessment conducted by officials and also attracted the most public votes.</p><p /><p>The Great British Railways Transition Team has published the result of the public vote on their website: <a href="https://gbrtt.co.uk/what-we-do/hq/" target="_blank">https://gbrtt.co.uk/what-we-do/hq/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 23/03/2023 09:34:01 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605726

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason York was not chosen as the location for the Great British Railways National Headquarters; and what weighting was given to the level of industrial skills among the local workforce in each candidate location in deciding the final location.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	169342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The decision was made by the Secretary of State for Transport based on the assessment of EOI applications against the six published selection criteria (alignment to levelling up principles; connected and easy to get to; opportunities for GBR; value for money; railway heritage and links to the network; and public support) and the result of the public vote. Derby’s application scored the highest in the critical assessment conducted by officials and attracted the most public votes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 23/03/2023 09:36:36 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1605727

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) he or (b) Ministers from his Department visited York as part of its decision on the future headquarters of Great British Rail.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	169343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>As part of the competition process the previous Rail Minister and the Great British Railways Transition Team visited the six shortlisted locations between July and August 2022, during the six-week public vote.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 23/03/2023 09:38:21 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1585786

registered interest
date	09/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to identify the best location for the new headquarters of Great British Railways.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	143771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2023 answer text <p>In order to determine the best location for the Great British Railways Headquarters (GBR HQ), the Great British Railways Transition Team (GBRTT) was tasked with overseeing the process to select a national headquarters for Great British Railways.</p><p> </p><p>GBRTT assessed the applications using six published criteria:</p><p /><ol><li>Alignment to Levelling Up objectives</li><li>Connected and easy to get to</li><li>Opportunities for GBR</li><li>Railway heritage and links to the network</li><li>Value for money</li><li>Public support, which included a public vote on the short-listed candidates.</li></ol><p> </p><p>An announcement on the final location of the GBR HQ will be made before the Easter break.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 21/02/2023 11:20:19 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1535539

registered interest
date	24/10/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Great British Railways: Location
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she plans to announce the location of the new headquarters for Great British Railways in 2022.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>A final decision and announcement will be made on the location for the GBR headquarters shortly.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 26/10/2022 09:06:58 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell