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	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether (a) job creation, (b) support for the UK supply chain and (c) UK content are in the criteria for the provision of rolling stock in the award of rail franchises.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	259983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Department sets out the criteria for the award of rail franchises in the competition Invitation to Tender documents which can be found on the Department’s website at gov.uk/dft. Rolling stock procurement is undertaken through fair and open competition, usually by train operators as part of their franchise commitments and operators may include procurement criteria that the Department is not party to.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Rail Sector Deal government is working with industry to promote procurement practices that support an innovative, highly-skilled, and productive British rail supply chain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/06/2019 14:12:05 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1129700

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
	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 10 April 2019 to Question 239970 on Rolling Stock: Procurement, what guarantees the Government has received in addition of (a) commitments and (b) expectations from rail manufacturers on the building of new factories.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	259984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>Rolling stock procurement is undertaken through fair and open competition, usually by train operators as part of their franchise commitments. As such the Department has received no guarantees in respect of the commitments or expectations from rail manufacturers on the building of new factories.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/06/2019 14:24:46 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1129702

	registered interest
	date	04/06/2019
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Rolling Stock: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's policy is on the offshoring of train manufacturing after a contract has been awarded.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	259986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the investment in the UK through the awarding of rolling stock contracts to UK based manufacturers. Through the Rail Sector Deal government is working with industry to promote procurement practices that support an innovative, highly-skilled, and productive British rail supply chain.</p><p> </p><p>Rolling stock procurement is undertaken through fair and open competition, usually by train operators as part of their franchise commitments.</p> answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones question first answered 12/06/2019 14:35:37 answering member 3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham