大臣s spent £1million planning to take 支配（する）／統制する of West Coast main line, before pleading with Richard Branson to stay on
- FirstGroup won 競争 to take over running Britain's busiest rail 大勝する from Virgin but 取引，協定 was scrapped after '重要な' 欠陥s were 設立する
- Five civil servants worked on 計画（する）s for 大勝する to be renationalised and run by 政府's 直接／まっすぐに Operated 鉄道s
- 輸送（する） 長官 Patrick McLoughlin is now in 会談 with Sir Richard to carry on running services while he sorts out the mess
輸送（する） 長官 Patrick McLoughlin today said the 取り消し of the West Coast franchise is '深く，強烈に 残念な'
大臣s spent £1million 準備するing to take 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of the West Coast main line from Whitehall before 訴える手段／行楽地ing to pleading with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin trains to continue running his trains.
Five civil servants drew up a 計画（する） for the lucrative line from London to Scotland to be renationalised after the 崩壊（する） of the franchise 競争 which had been won by Virgin’s 競争相手 FirstGroup.
But as the clock ticked 負かす／撃墜する to the December 9 最終期限 when Virgin was 予定 to be kicked off the London to Scotland line, 大臣s were 軍隊d to ask Sir Richard to stay on while they find a more 永久の 解答.
The £1million price tag for the abortive 計画（する） for the line to be taken 支援する into public 支配（する）／統制する will raise その上の questions about the Department for 輸送（する）’s 扱うing of big rail franchises.
労働's 影をつくる／尾行する 輸送（する） 長官 Maria Eagle today 答える／応じるd to the 発覚 by calling on 大臣s to 'come clean' about the 十分な 規模 of the cost of the fiasco.
FirstGroup was awarded the £13billion, 13-year 取引，協定 in August but Virgin 開始する，打ち上げるd a 合法的な challenge.
As 公式の／役人s 用意が出来ている for the High 法廷，裁判所 訴訟／進行s last month, ‘重要な technical 欠陥s’ in the 契約 競争 were 明らかにするd. Three civil servants were 一時停止するd an
d the 取引，協定 was 一時停止するd.
In a major PR クーデター for Virgin, last week 輸送（する） 長官 Patrick McLoughlin asked Sir Richard to continue running services after December 9 for up to 13 months.
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However, it has now 現れるd that the 大臣 drew up 計画（する）s to take 支配（する）／統制する of the line himself, through the 政府’s company, 直接／まっすぐに Operated 鉄道s.
The West Coast main line is Britain's busiest rail 大勝する, connecting London to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow
輸送（する） 大臣 Simon 燃やすs told MPs: ‘直接／まっすぐに Operated 鉄道s has been 請け負うing 慎重な contingency 準備s and they will continue to stand ready should they be 要求するd.?
‘We do not yet have final 人物／姿／数字s, but spend to date has been around £1 million. This 含むs 支出 on salaries and 顧問s.’
He 追加するd that the work consisted of ‘慎重な contingency 準備s and they will continue to stand ready should they be 要求するd’.
Mr 燃やすs was 答える／応じるing to 議会の questions.
The Department for 輸送（する） had ‘a 核心 team of five working wholly or partly on the contingency planning and they were supported, where needed, by 同僚s from other areas of the Department’.
Virgin Trains boss SVirgin Trains boss Sir Richard Branson has been asked to continue running services on the West Coast main line for up to 13 months
The 崩壊（する） of the 取引，協定 is 推定する／予想するd to cost taxpayers more than £100million in 補償（金） and re-running a new bidding 過程.
Refunding the franchises is 推定する／予想するd to cost £40million, but it had been 予報するd that the 結局の 法案 fort taxpayers could cost £100million.
The 決定／判定勝ち（する） not to nationalise the line is likely to be raised when Mr McLoughlin appears in 前線 of MPs at the 輸送（する） select 委員会 at the end of this month.
In September Mr McLoughlin 主張するd: ’I’m 決定するd the trains will not stop running.’
The 飛行機で行くing Scotsman service was 再提出するd by the 政府-owned 直接／まっすぐに Operated 鉄道s on the East Coast line
労働 MPs called for him to renationalise the West Coast main line, 特記する／引用するing the example of the East Coast line which the 労働 governmentt ook over in 2009 when? 国家の 表明する walked away from the franchise.
Julie Hilling, 労働 MP for Bolton West, said: ‘As a 直接／まっすぐに operated 鉄道, the east coast main line returned £187 million to the taxpayer last year.’
She asked how much money Virgin will 支払う／賃金 to the taxpayer during the period of 拡張 to its west coast main line franchise. Mr McLoughlin said 交渉s remain 現在進行中の.
Today Ms Eagle said: 'It’s ますます （疑いを）晴らす that taxpayers are 始める，決める to be stung for far more than the £40 million cost of this shambles so far 認める
by 大臣s, with the final 法案 likely to 最高の，を越す £100million.
'We now know that the costs of 準備するing to take over the West Coast line topped six 人物／姿／数字s, and the 輸送（する） 長官 has still not come clean about the many millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs that will have to be paid 支援する to 補償する 入札者s for the 一時停止するd 広大な／多数の／重要な Western, Essex Thameside and Thameslink franchises.
'It’s time for the 政府 to 受託する that it is 完全に 容認できない for the Department for 輸送（する）’s own board to 調査／捜査する itself.
'Taxpayers deserve a truly 独立した・無所属 調査 into what went wrong and who was to 非難する for so much of their money 存在 注ぐd 負かす／撃墜する the drain.'
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