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Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Bill

Is this not just going back to the point that if the Rail Regulator was responsible, the infrastructure provider would come forward in a timely manner with the regulations? Is this not the point that we have been driving at all along? The Department for Transport is not an efficient regulator, and probably never will be, because it never sticks to the sort of timescale that the Office of Rail Regulation does. A quinquennial review does not mean later in the year or sometime next year; it means five years. We are driving at that preciseness on which business decisions have to be made, and which is being sought by the would-be purchasers of the rail link.