Clause 15 - Office of Rail Regulation
London Olympics Bill
4:30 pm
Richard Caborn (Minister of State (Sport), Department for Culture, Media & Sport; Sheffield Central, Labour)
We want to ensure that the Office of Rail Regulation helps to deliver a successful Olympic transport system. To that end, we have given it a new duty to facilitate the provision, management and control of Olympic transport facilities, but I do not believe that we have got the clause quite right yet. As the Bill stands, the ORR must exercise all its existing functions in a manner that supports Olympic transport. We do not want to suggest that the ORR's Olympic duty overrides any of its other duties. Our amendment would therefore make it absolutely clear that the duty to support Olympic transport is in addition to, not superior to, its other responsibilities.