Wales and Borders rail franchise inquiry
Inquiry by the Welsh Affairs Committee, 19 July 2016 to 31 March 2017. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- 3rd Report - Wales and Borders rail franchise (20 January 2017)
- 4th Special Report - Wales and Borders rail franchise: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2016-17 (31 March 2017)
Evidence sessions
- 5 September 2016: Professor Stuart Cole, Emeritus Professor of Transport, University of South Wales
- 15 September 2016: Ian Bullock, Managing Director, Arriva Trains Wales, and Roger Cobbe, Policy Director, Arriva Trains; Elizabeth De Jong, Director of Policy, Rail Delivery Group (at 2.45pm).
- 17 October 2016: Ken Skates AM, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, and Simon Jones, Director of Transport and ICT infrastructure, Welsh Government (via videolink); Councillor Samantha Dixon, Chair, North Wales and Mersey Dee Cross-Border Rail Task Force, Ashley Rogers, Chair, North Wales Business Council, and Iwan Prys-Jones, Programme Manager, North Wales Economic Ambition Board (at 5.00pm).
- 24 October 2016: Paul Maynard MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, and Eddie Muraszko, Deputy Director, Midlands, North and Wales Market, Department of Transport