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Parliament's record since 1997: debates, questions, statements, votes, bills, committees and members' interests

Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Rail franchising inquiry

Inquiry by the Transport Committee, 29 April 2016 to 3 May 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 5 September 2016: Tony Lodge, Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies, Nigel Keohane, Director of Research, Social Market Foundation, and Dr Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer, Leeds Institute of Transport Studies; Dr Andrea Coscelli, Acting Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority, and Joanna Whittington, Chief Executive, Office of Rail and Road (at 5.00pm).
  • 10 October 2016: Mike Hewitson, Head of Policy and Issues, Transport Focus, Stephen Joseph OBE, Chief Executive, Campaign for Better Transport, and Stephen Locke, Chair, London TravelWatch; Gareth Powell, Director of Strategy and Contracted Services, Surface Transport, Transport for London, Charlie Hodgson, Managing Director, Rail Development, Go-Ahead, Richard McClean, Managing Director, Grand Central, and Elizabeth de Jong, Director of Policy, The Rail Delivery Group (at 4.45pm).
  • 24 October 2016: Mick Cash, General Secretary, RMT, and Mick Whelan, General Secretary, ASLEF; Jo Kaye, Executive Director for Network Strategy and Capacity Planning, and Paul Harwood, Strategy and Planning Director (South), Network Rail (at 4.45pm).
  • 7 November 2016: Roger Cobbe, Policy Director, Arriva UK Trains Ltd, Hugh Clancy, Commercial Director of First Rail, FirstGroup, Tim Shoveller, Managing Director of Stagecoach Rail, Stagecoach Group, and Jamie Burles, Managing Director, Greater Anglia; Paul Maynard MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, and Peter Wilkinson, Managing Director of Passenger Services, Department for Transport (at 4.55pm).