PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
TFL concessions (31 October 2024)

Motion Details

That this House welcomes the Government’s Passenger Rail Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which is nearing completion of its passage through Parliament; notes that the Government’s impact assessment of the Bill states that there will be significant savings to the Government and that public ownership represents an opportunity to improve passenger rail services; further notes that the private-sector concession contracts for the Elizabeth Line and London Overground, which are similar to the national rail contacts due to be nationalised, are coming to an end soon and that the Government has confirmed that the decision over whether also to run these services under public ownership rests with the Mayor of London; also notes that MTR paid out a dividend of £7.6 million last year, equivalent to a 2.4% cut in Elizabeth Line fares, while Arriva Rail London paid a dividend of £9.6 million, equivalent to a 4.4% cut in Overground fares; notes the Rail Minister’s view that these concessions are more expensive than this Government’s plans for public ownership and would be even more costly to taxpayers than current national rail contracts; agrees with the general secretaries of the RMT and ASLEF unions, who have argued that Londoners deserve every penny of public funding and passenger revenue being spent on the capital’s railways and not on shareholders dividends; and urges the Mayor to make the decision to bring both the Elizabeth Line and London Overground into public ownership when contracts expire and run them directly within Transport for London.

Sponsored by:
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Labour)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Labour
8
53%
 
 
Independent
5
33%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
7%
 
 
Green Party
1
7%
 
Sponsor List (15 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Ind
Shockat Adam
Leicester South
Ind
Richard Burgon
Leeds East
Ind
Ian Byrne
Liverpool West Derby
Green
Ellie Chowns
North Herefordshire
Lab
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Poole
Lab
Mary Kelly Foy
City of Durham
Ind
Imran Hussain
Bradford East
Lab
Kim Johnson
Liverpool Riverside
Lab
Ian Lavery
Blyth and Ashington
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Lab
Grahame Morris
Easington
Lab
Margaret Mullane
Dagenham and Rainham
Lab
Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Sponsor)
Clapham and Brixton Hill
DUP
Jim Shannon
Strangford
Lab
Jon Trickett
Normanton and Hemsworth

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