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Fresh call to axe Network Rail bonuses
The Co-operative Party has added its voice to passenger watchdogs, MPs and the rail regulator in calling for the individual pay-outs of up to £372,000 to be scrapped.
Michael Stephenson, the party’s general secretary, said: “In the last year, Network Rail has been found wanting by the public, censured by the (Commons] select committee and damned by its own members in a report that they tried to suppress.
“Despite all of this, Network Rail’s board has decided to pay out bonuses to its senior management totalling more than £1.2 million. If Network Rail’s members cannot challenge or block this, they are clearly a body that is not worth having.”
The party sponsors 29 Labour MPs, including Children’s Secretary Ed Balls and Treasury committee chairman John McFall
