Caledonian
Sleeper
is
to
pass
into
public
ownership


when
the
present
Serco
contract
ends
in
June.

Transport
minister
Jenny
Gilruth
has
announced
the
decision
to
MSPs
at
Holyrood.

She
said
that
management
of
the
Caledonian
Sleeper
will
pass
to
an
arms-length
company
owned
by
the
Scottish
Government
on
25
June.

She
also
criticised
the
pace
of
railway
reform
in
England,
saying
that
the
London
government
is ‘not
going
far
enough’,
and
that
it
was ‘very
unclear’
when
the
changes
proposed
in
the
Williams-Shapps
report,
which
recommends
the
creation
of
the
guiding
mind
Great
British
Railways,
will
come
about.

She
confirmed
that
the
terms
and
conditions
of
the
employment
of
sleeper
staff
would
be
protected
when
they
are
transferred
to
the
state-owned
company.