This from Captain Deltic...
The Office of Rail Regulation's Draft Determination under Periodic Review 13 (PR13) published today occupies a staggering 813 pages.
The PR08 Draft Determination required just 372 pages.
So that is an 118% increase in five years.
The draft conclusions for the PR03 interim review required a mere 211 pages - and that in the aftermath of the collapse of Railtrack.
So Richard Price, running a well established process for a relatively stable industry, needs four times the space of Tom Winsor whose interim review was written at a time of near anarchy when the government maintained radio silence on its requirements.
As Flanders and Swann nearly wrote: "It all makes work for the Regulatory man to do".
Perhaps time for an efficiency review of ORR?
