1 The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill ("the Bill") is a short Bill amending specific provisions in the Railways Act 1993 ("RA93") to remove the presumption in favour of private sector operation of franchised passenger services to facilitate Government’s commitment to bring such train operations back into public ownership when current franchise contracts end.
2 It enables the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and/or the Welsh Ministers (as the appropriate franchising authorities) to secure the provision of designated railway passenger services via contracts with pub…