{"id":43902,"date":"2014-06-19T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0275e474462c10c5d16b05805ad6261e"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:20:16","slug":"statement-to-parliament-london-and-continental-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=43902","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: London and Continental Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>I can today (19 June 2014) inform the House that the Department for Transport has transferred its 40% stake in Eurostar (held through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/london-and-continental-railways-ltd\">London and Continental Railways<\/a> to Her Majesty\u2019s Treasury. <\/p>\n<p>This is to address any perceived or actual conflict of interests resulting from the interaction between the government\u2019s stake in Eurostar and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/rail-franchising\">east coast franchise competition<\/a>, and in particular any perception of bias arising out of the Secretary of State for Transport\u2019s shareholding in London and Continental Railways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DfT has transferred its 40% stake in Eurostar, held through London and Continental Railways, to Her Majesty\u2019s Treasury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}