questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of transferring West Midlands Trains into public ownership, including legal, consultancy, procurement, and transition management costs; what estimate she has made of any additional annual operating costs arising from public ownership compared with the previous operator model; and whether she plans to publish an aggregated transition cost assessment.
answerText: Since the start of the pandemic, the net costs of operating franchised passenger services have been borne by taxpayers, not by private train operators. The transfer of West Midlands Trains’ services into public ownership is expected to reduce the Governme...
heading: West Midlands Trains: Nationalisation