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Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Investing in the railway

Inquiry by the Transport Committee, 6 May 2014 to 24 July 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 30 June 2014: Paul Plummer, Rail Delivery Group member and Group Strategy Director, Network Rail, Jeremy Long, Rail Delivery Group member and Chief Executive Officer, European Business, MTR Corporation, Nigel Jones, Rail Delivery Group member and Head of Planning, DB Schenker, Clare Moriarty, Director General, Rail Executive, Department for Transport, and Roger Jones, Deputy Director, Rail Network Outcomes, Department for Transport
  • 14 July 2014: Richard Price, Chief Executive, Office of Rail Regulation, John Larkinson, Director, Economic Regulation, Office of Rail Regulation, Anthony Smith, Chief Executive, Passenger Focus, and Mike Hewitson, Head of Passenger Issues, Passenger Focus
  • 1 September 2014: David Brown, Director General, Merseytravel, representing Rail North, Dr Jon Lamonte, Chief Executive, Transport for Greater Manchester, representing One North, Dr Ian Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, Councillor Chris Shaw, Leader, North East Lincolnshire Council, and Councillor Liz Redfern, Leader, North Lincolnshire Council
  • 27 October 2014: Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor for Transport, Greater London Authority, Tracey Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Plymouth City Council, and Lead Chief Executive Officer for the Peninsula Rail Task Force, and Mark Pendlington, Chairman, New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership; Malcolm Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Angel Trains, Paul Francis, Managing Director, Porterbrook, and Mary Kenny, Chief Executive Officer, Eversholt Rail.
  • 1 December 2014: Maggie Simpson, Executive Director, Rail Freight Group, Lindsay Durham, Head of Rail Strategy, Freightliner Group, and John Smith, Managing Director, GB Railfreight.
  • 15 December 2014: Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, Secretary of State, and Philip Rutnam, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport