Policy paper

Government response to the Brown review of the rail franchising programme

Government’s formal response to the recommendations in Richard Brown’s review of the rail franchising programme published in January 2013.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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Government response to the Brown review of the rail franchising programme

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This government response broadly accepts the recommendations in the independent Brown review of the rail franchising programme. It reports on the progress made in implementing the recommendations, and sets out the high-level principles we will be applying in future.

Published 11 July 2013