HL Deb 26 April 2004 vol 660 cc76-8WA
Lord Berkeley

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What are the basic payments and incentive receipts or payments made by the Strategic Rail Authority to each passenger train operator in 2002–03; and why these were not published in the Strategic Rail Authority's annual report for 2002–03. [HL2224]

Lord Davies of Oldham

Appendix 3 to the Strategic Rail Authority's annual report for 2002–03 gives the franchise net payments to train operating companies. The basic payments and incentive receipts or payments are provided in the table below. The incentive payments were published in the June 2003 issue of the SRA's quarterly statistical publication,On Track.

Transactions with railway companies
All figures £000s (brackets indicate a receipt from an operator)
This table shows for each franchise the cash amounts paid and received as basic (non-incentive) payments and incentive regime payments
Payments Receipts
12 months to 31 March 2003 Basic Payments 000s Incentive Payments 000s Total Payments 000s Basic Receipts 000s Incentive Receipts 000s Total Receipts 000s Net Basic Payment 000s Net Incentive Payments 000s Net Total Payment 000s
Thames Trains 7,641 — 7,641 (16,822) (4,051) (20,872) (9,181) (4,051) (13,232)
Virgin Cross Country 206,286 — 206,286 — — — 206,286 — 206,286
Virgin West Coast 220,464 — 220,464 (31,537) (98) (31,635) 188,927 (98) 188,829
WAGN 31,736 — 31,736 (33,636) (6,214) (39,850) (1,900) (6,214) (8,114)
Wales & Borders Trains 95,170 366 95,535 (2,743) (2,432) (5,175) 92,427 (2,066) 90,360
Wessex Trains 56,595 34 56,629 (2,476) (3,268) (5,744) 54,118 (3,234) 50,885
Total 1,531,415 2,894 1,534,309 (504,776) (86,025) (626,800) 990,639 (83,130) 907,509

Notes:

1. All figures are rounded individually to the nearest £1,000. There may therefore be discrepancies between the totals of the rounded numbers and the column totals. The column totals are correct.

2. Incentive regime payments and receipts are calculated in arrears, but the figures in this table refer to transactions actually made during the financial year.