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The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today published four key documents dealing with future regulation of the GB rail network.

Network Rail spends nearly £1bn per year on signalling, and costs are rising.

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Network Rail finds the company has continued to deliver its planned efficiencies in 2021/22 but warns it must carefully manage its financial risks, particularly in the context of rising inflation.

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Network Rail Scotland (April 2021 to March 2022) shows it has been a challenging year for the region with missed efficiency targets and mixed train service performance.

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Network Rail’s Eastern region finds that it delivered £251 million of efficiency improvements in the year (April 2021 to March 2022), which was ahead of its £232 million target.

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Network Rail’s North West and Central region finds that it was Network Rail’s top performing region for the year (April 2021 to March 2022), having retained much of the train performance gain achieved during the pandemic and having delivered its planned efficiencies.

The Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual assessment of Network Rail’s Southern region (April 2021 to March 2022) finds that passenger train performance declined from the previous year’s peak, but it remained better than pre-pandemic levels.

The Office of Rail and Road’s annual assessment of Network Rail’s Wales and Western region has found that passenger train service performance declined considerably and raises concerns about the performance of the Wales route during the year (April 2021 to March 2022).

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) says that over the next year, National Highways must: improve its performance against its 10-minute response time on certain sections of smart motorways; provide better evidence of how it is considering the long-term needs of its assets when making renewals decisions across the strategic road network (SRN) – England’s motorways and major A-roads; and provide a

Ensuring the rail industry remained focused on the basics of health and safety management as it prepares for reform and substantial change, is one of the key messages in the Office of Rail and Road’s (ORR) annual report on health and safety on Britain’s Railways.