Price controls

This page sets out information relating to the high-level output specifications (HLOS) and statements of funds available (SoFA) for CP6. Overview As part of a periodic review, the Scottish Ministers and Secretary of State are required to inform us what they each want railway activities to achieve during the next control period. We call this the ‘high-level output specification’ or HLOS. The

This page includes all legal notices issued as part of PR18. It also includes links to Network Rail's price lists for track access charges.

In our charges and incentives consultation, published in December 2016, we encouraged an industry-led approach to the re-calibration of Schedules 4 and 8 in PR18. To help start this process we hosted a series of regular meetings to agree with industry the approach for recalibrating each aspect of the regimes. There are separate passenger, freight and charter Recalibration Working Groups to account

This group discussed issues relating to the development of the framework for Network Rail’s outputs and performance monitoring. This included considering the role of Network Rail’s stakeholders in informing what Network Rail would deliver. This working group was disbanded at the end of 2016 and Outputs items were covered through the RDG Route level regulation, charges and incentives working group

This group discussed issues relating to the regulation of system operation. Garry White chaired this RDG working group. The agreed meeting notes of the working group are set out below, along with any other relevant papers. RDG system operation working group meeting note - 10 November 2017 RDG system operation working group meeting note - 7 August 2017 RDG system operation working group meeting

This group discussed issues relating to two of the priority work areas that we identified for the review in our initial consultation , namely: A focus on regulating at route level; and Increasing transparency around costs and improving incentives. The working group also considered the financial framework for CP6 as it is directly relevant to these two areas. The chair of this RDG working group was

In 2016, we published our initial consultation on the 2018 periodic review (PR18). In connection with this, we subsequently published a number of working papers, including working paper 5 which explored options for the treatment of enhancements projects in control period 6 (CP6). Working paper 5 on options for the treatment of enhancements in CP6 On 16 June 2017, we published a close-out report on

On 18 May 2016, we published our initial consultation on the 2018 periodic review (PR18). This set out our proposal to regulate Network Rail at route-level, alongside a tailored approach to regulating Network Rail’s system operation functions. In support of developing the detailed policy framework for this, we published a working paper on the Outputs Framework setting out our initial thinking in