{"id":70788,"date":"2016-05-20T14:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=622e8112921549fb4e2333c5d28bb694"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:01:59","slug":"news-story-cma-refers-northern-rail-franchise-merger-for-in-depth-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70788","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA refers Northern Rail Franchise merger for in-depth investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/arriva-could-face-in-depth-investigation-over-northern-rail-franchise\">Last week<\/a>, the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) said that it would refer the merger for an in-depth investigation unless Arriva offered acceptable undertakings to address the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s competition concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is concerned that as the Northern Rail franchise overlaps with rail and bus services already run by Arriva, any loss of competition could lead to higher prices or a reduction of service quality for passengers on a number of routes.<\/p>\n<p>Arriva has not offered any undertakings in lieu and the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> will therefore now refer the merger.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on the merger will be made by a group of independent panel members supported by a case team of <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> staff. The deadline for the final report will be 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s decision will be available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/arriva-rail-north-northern-rail-franchise-merger-inquiry\">case page<\/a> in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has referred the Northern Rail franchise award to Arriva for an in-depth investigation.<\/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\/70788"}],"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=70788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}