ORR consults on the separation of Scotland from England and Wales in Network Rail’s expenditure and revenue allowances
14 June 2005
ORR/25/05
The first steps were taken today to establish an appropriate regulatory framework for the transfer of powers and responsibilities for specifying and funding railway services and high-level railway outputs to the devolved government in Scotland, and to local and regional bodies in England and the National Assembly for Wales. Proposals to devolve these responsibilities were set out in the Government’s white paper The Future of Rail published in July 2004, and necessitate a number of changes to the structure, operation and funding of the rail industry.
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) is setting out its approach to dealing with these changes in a consultation document Disaggregating Network Rail's expenditure and revenue allowance and the future price control framework, which includes:
- proposals to separate Network Rail’s expenditure and revenue allowances into separate requirements for Scotland, and for England and Wales;
- details of the proposed methodology for separating Network Rail’s regulatory asset base (RAB); and
- proposals for the future development of Network Rail’s price control and monitoring framework in England and Wales, and Scotland.
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