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Head Office: 25 Cabot Square, London E14 4QZ T: 020 7282 2000 www.orr.gov.uk
Stephanie Tobyn
Director, Economics, Markets and Strategy
Wendy Morton
- Minister of State for Transport
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
Jenn
ifer Gilruth - Minister for Transport
The Scottish Government
St. Andrew’s House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
09 June 2022
Dear Wendy Morton and Jennifer Gilruth,
Review Initiation Notice pursuant to Schedule 4A of the Railways Act 1993
In accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 1C of Schedule 4A to the Railways
Act 1993, we have today issued Review Initiation Notices relating to our 2023
periodic review (PR23) of Network Rail, which sets out our proposal to commence
formally and legally the periodic review (or ‘access charges review’).
As part of this, we set out the dates by which we require the Secretary of State for
Transport and Scottish Ministers to submit (separately) their High-Level Output
Specification (HLOS) and the Statement of Funds Available (SoFA) documents.
This letter gives the context for these Review Initiation Notices, including our work to
help support timely delivery of funders’ HLOS and SoFA documents.
Submission dates for funders’ HLOS and SoFA documents
As you are aware, the HLOS document will set out what the respective funder’s
objectives are and what it wants the railway to deliver over control period 7 (or CP7),
which will run for five years from 1 April 2024. The SoFA sets out the level of funding
the funder will make available to deliver the corresponding HLOS.
For PR23, we are serving two different notices, one to the Secretary of State and
one to Scottish Ministers, reflecting that we have agreed that they will submit their
respective HLOS and SoFA documents on different dates. In order to complete our
periodic review by the statutory deadlines (including to ensure appropriate funding is
in place for Network Rail for CP7), we require that:
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