Archive: Department For Transport

'Complete lack of common sense': The disaster of the West Coast franchise

Virgin Rail was one of the companies bidding for the franchise before it was cancelled by the DfT.

The Department for Transport has been told to 'get its house in order' by MPs following the bungling of the InterCity West Coast rail franchise competition.

Taxpayer foots bill for DfT's west coast mainline incompetence

Rail franchise blame game gets up steam

HS2's enemies take heart from rail franchise fiasco

Rail minister 'dodges commuter trains'

Simon Burns, MP for Chelmsford, defended by friends as 'hard-working'

A Tory transport minister's excuses for using dodging the commuter trains he is responsible for appear to have been defeated by government press officers.

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Taxpayer foots bill for DfT's west coast mainline incompetence

Richard Branson's Virgin fought the DfT - and won

The west coast mainline fiasco has cost the taxpayer a "significant" amount of cash, the government's public spending watchdog has found.

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Transport secretary condemns his own department's 'damning failure'

The last of 106 Pendolino carriages comes into service today on the west coast mainline

Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has condemned his department's "damning failure" over the west coast mainline, after announcing a 23-month deal with Virgin Rail.

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Rail franchise blame game gets up steam

Richard Branson's Virgin Rail is now in talks with the DfT over keeping trains running on the west coast main line

Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises.

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Saved by the trains: Miliband blushes spared by huge coalition U-turn

Back on track: Virgin forces major U-turn over West Coast mainline

Ed Miliband was spared an increasingly critical appraisal of his conference speech today, after a major coalition U-turn distracted the press from events in Manchester.

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'Do nothing' ministers criticised as road deaths rise

2011 saw first increase in road deaths since 2003

Ministers need to show some leadership on road safety to halt the increase in deaths on the roads, MPs have urged.

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Budget 2012: PM sees UK roads' salvation in private sector

Private sector investment could help reduce congestion, PM argues

Britain's road network will be opened up to investment from the private sector, David Cameron will announce later.

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Regions 'frozen out' of transport spending splurge

Major transport project spending is skewed towards the south-east and London

"Skewed" transport spending must be diverted away from London and the south-east to redress a "shocking" imbalance hitting the north of England, according to a report.

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