Title: Great British Railways Post by: REVUpminster on March 16, 2025, 07:10:42 Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport.
Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: grahame on March 16, 2025, 07:26:57 Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport. Oh - the same irony that rail franchising is declared dead and the TOCs will be nationalised, whereas flavour of the month in bus operation is a network designed by the public sector, with routes or areas operated by franchises? Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: TaplowGreen on March 16, 2025, 07:54:37 Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport. Yes. Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 16, 2025, 14:14:51 My reading of the debate is that Labour are re-nationalising the railways, and re-nationalising ... erm, the National Health Service.
::) Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: TaplowGreen on March 16, 2025, 15:25:33 My reading of the debate is that Labour are re-nationalising the railways, and re-nationalising ... erm, the National Health Service. ::) When was the NHS privatised? Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: ChrisB on March 16, 2025, 15:26:58 Depends on your definition of NHS England body
Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: TaplowGreen on March 16, 2025, 15:49:54 Depends on your definition of NHS England body I'd suggest it depends rather more on your understanding of what constitutes privatisation. Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: ChrisB on March 16, 2025, 16:02:19 Maybe so, so tell me - what is the value of external contracts entered into by NHS England? And why they aren't seen as privatisation (even by 'the back door')?
Title: Re: Great British Railways Post by: Electric train on March 17, 2025, 06:41:00 Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport. Oh - the same irony that rail franchising is declared dead and the TOCs will be nationalised, whereas flavour of the month in bus operation is a network designed by the public sector, with routes or areas operated by franchises? No. The first phase of GBR is to bring all the National Rail franchise under on body, GBR. Phase 2 will be the reshaping of the operators, it could see all the London 'metro' services handed to TfL; consolidating Southern, SWT and SE outer services into one operator, the interesting one will be the proposals for a Hampshire IoW unitary authority which looks like transport is part of that proposal, there are likely to be others, Buckinghamshire??. Cities like Manchester, Birmingham all local services handed to the metro mayors to run. The Labour Government move with NHS England seems more about devolving power to Health Care Trusts than micro management by the men from the Ministry the same is for GBR ................ However the men from the Ministry tend to be control freaks, hopefully the Government will be able to prise control out of the dyeing hands of the Civil Servants This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |