- 09/12/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
The Bill, first introduced to the House of Commons on 5 November 2025, was debated on 9 December 2025.
After the Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024 brought train services back into public ownership, this Bill aims to enable the creation of Great British Railways (GBR), a new publicly owned body which will take responsibility for the railway infrastructure (e.g. tracks, bridges, tunnels and stations) and most passenger train services.
The current system suffers from unreliable services, low customer satisfaction and poor value for money, caused by a model which is overly fragmented, lacks
accountability, and contains perverse incentives and irregularities, such as different operators selling different tickets and charging different prices for the same journey.
An amendment to the Bill in the name of Richard Holden MP (Conservative) was rejected (Ayes 170 Noes 332), the Bill passed with the result: Ayes 329 Noes 173.
It will now be scrutinised line-by-line in a Public Bill Committee, a date for which is yet to be announced.