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Interim Laidlaw Report - Covering Letter

Document Summary

The covering letter accompanying the Laidlaw report into franchising failures.

This document was published on 27th October 2012 by Department for Transport.

It was written by Sam Laidlaw.

The original document format was PDF File, and comprised 1 pages.The original document can be found here.

This document was kindly sourced from Department for Transport and is in our Letters & telegraphs collection. It was added to the Archive on 30th October 2012 by the Archivist.

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"In the limited time available this is a preliminary report. What is clear however is that in seeking to run a complex and novel franchising competition process, an accumulation of significant errors, described in the report, resulted in a flawed franchise process."