Southern Rail

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Dear Department for Transport,

Today, September 1st, Govia Thameslink aka Southern Rail (hereafter known as GTR) were awarded approximately £20,000,000 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-372...) to "get a grip" on their services.

Please release reports, contracts, minutes, memorandums that detail:
1. Who requested this money be paid to GTR
2. Who authorised that this money be paid to GTR
3. What talks and discussions took place between GTR before this money was authorised
4. Where this money is being targeted and how the figure was decided upon.
5. What monitoring is being conducted to ensure that this is additional investment is spent by GTR in a way that benefits all commuters and passengers on this railway
6. What discussions were had to secure this investment from GTR instead of the DfT/Taxpayer
7. Whether removing GTR of the Southern Rail franchise was considered, and what discussions were made.

I am aware the FOIA has preclusions for junior public servants from being named in FoIA responses; I therefore expect that the answers to questions 1 and 2 may have some names with-held for privacy reasons. In this case please state the job title rather than the name.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Harding

Chris Hogan left an annotation ()

If you look at the DfT press release rather than the BBC report, you will see that the majority of the money is going to the nationalised Network Rail as 60% of delays to Southern Railway's services are caused by the government and not the train operator.

Department for Transport

Dear Mr Harding,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information which
has been allocated reference number P0013978.

A response will be issued to you in due course.

Regards,

Ivan Pocock
Department for Transport
FOI Advice Team
Information & Security Division
Zone D/04
Ashdown House
Sedlescombe Road North
St Leonards on Sea
East Sussex
TN37 7GA

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Rail-franchise-correspondence, Department for Transport

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Dear Mr Harding,

 

Please find attached reply to you Freedom of Information request.

 

 

[1][IMG]          Mr Jeaur Rahman 
Correspondence Manager, Passenger Services 

4/21 GMH, Great Minster House
33 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 4DR  
[2]Follow us on twitter @transportgovuk 

 

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