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Today the ORR published the report it commissioned into aspects of Network Rail’s governance.

Entitled "Network Rail: Membership aspects of governance", the KPMG report drew attention to a number of serious structural weaknesses in the role of Public Members including:

• a lack of clarity about the role of members and the way members are selected

• issues around members having access to appropriate information and analysis in order to take an informed view of Network Rail's performance, including future prospects, so that they can hold Network Rail to account efficiently.

Perhaps the simplest solution would to be to give all Public Members a wi-fi enabled laptop set to the Daft endorsed uber-rail web-site Railway Eye!.

That really would challenge Ian McAllister's legendary schmoozing powers.