Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in preparing a public sector bid for the ScotRail franchise.
I am currently considering the suitability of existing public sector bodies to bid for the franchise contract and the steps required to create a new public sector body, if it is necessary to do so.
Though complex, we are making good progress with the work and in the Spring I expect to identify a suitable public sector body to make a bid.