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
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