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Network Rail: Business Plans

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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 9674, tabled on 9 September 2015

Question

Lilian Greenwood
Labour
Nottingham South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the publication by Network Rail of a CP5 Business Plan update in March 2015 was a regulated output of Control Period 5.

Answer

Claire Perry
Conservative
Devizes
Commons

Answered on

14 September 2015

The network licence issued by ORR sets legally-binding conditions for the licence holder – Network Rail. Condition 1.10 states that:

"the licence holder shall prepare, provide to ORR and publish a delivery plan setting out what the licence holder proposes to do to comply with the general duty in condition 1.2."

Network Rail fulfilled this requirement when it published a Delivery Plan for Control Period 5 on 31 March 2014. The Business Plan is distinct from the Delivery Plan and its publication is not a network licence condition.

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