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<p>Premium and subsidy payments, together with key components of those payments, are
reported for each train operating company in the Office of Rail and Road’s Data Portal
entry ‘Government subsidy per passenger kilometre by train operating company’. This
can be found at: <a href="http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/data-portal" target="_blank">http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/data-portal</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>Directly awarded franchise agreements such as the Great Western Railway are
awarded under the terms of procurement regulations. These require the Department to
assure itself that the costs and revenues agreed with franchisees, and recorded in
the franchise agreement as net premiums or subsidy, are correct. The Department continues
to review its procurement processes to ensure that this requirement continues to be
met in any new directly awarded franchises granted.</p>
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