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Details of our enforcement powers as an independent regulator. Health and safety enforcement powers As well as giving advice to the industry, we also have a range of formal enforcement powers given to us under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Our health and safety enforcement policy statement is an important document explaining how we will enforce health and safety law. Health and safety

The rail Value for Money (VfM) study commissioned a number of consultants' reports to inform its thinking. This page provides links to copies of these reports. While these reports were commissioned by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR), the findings and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the DfT and the ORR

We issue licences to show that a person is ‘fit and proper’ to operate railway assets.

The Value for Money Study was commissioned jointly by the Department for Transport and the Office of Rail Regulation. The Study's final report puts forward a wide range of recommendations focused on creating an industry environment which encourages cost reduction, changes which deliver new efficiencies, and mechanisms to drive implementation. The Study estimates that implementing these

We carried out a public market study between September 2010 and February 2011 into access to rail freight sites in Great Britain. This resulted in a stakeholder consultation from May to July 2011, in which we described a number of potential issues affecting this sector, with a particular focus on the effectiveness of the various provisions that were put in place at privatisation to prevent the

How we'll monitor Network Rail 2014-2019

One of the recommendations made by the McNulty rail value for money study was that a leadership body be established to take responsibility for coordinating and leading on cross industry initiatives, including delivery of the other McNulty recommendations. The Rail Delivery Group was established in June 2011 by the major passenger and freight train operator groups and Network Rail to fulfil this

We regulate Network Rail’s stewardship of the rail network for the long term – for investors, train companies and their passengers, freight customers and the taxpayers.

Better Value Rail (BVR) is a joint initiative between the Department for Transport, the Office of Rail and Road and Network Rail. It is a toolkit aimed to improve early-stage development of rail-based transport projects.