London Underground Public Private Partnership And Train Maintenance

EDM number 794 in 2005-06, proposed by John McDonnell on 19/10/2005.

That this House expresses its concern at the severe delays on the London Underground Northern Line services caused by faulty train design; congratulates London Underground drivers for protecting the travelling public by refusing to work for safety reasons; believes that identifying and fixing the fault has been made more difficult by the fragmentation of train maintenance resulting from the ill-conceived part privatisation of the Underground; is alarmed that the largest public private partnership Infraco Metronet, is pressing ahead with proposals to outsource its train maintenance from 2007; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that the necessary powers are made available to allow all London Underground maintenance to be brought back in-house.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.