The programme for government has a commitment to develop a new not-for-profit rail franchise for Wales. I’m not only the one, I think, that’s tried and failed so far to understand what this actually means. The policy director of Arriva Wales, speaking to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee recently, said,

‘I do not feel I have ever seen an explanation of what this concept was’.

There are four for-profit companies at the moment preparing to bid for the Wales rail franchise when the current term comes to an end. Are they wasting their time, and is it the Government’s intention to use Transport for Wales, which is currently about five people in Treforest, to bid as part of the franchise competition?