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But what is important to passengers is that the trains run on

But what is important to passengers is that the trains run on time today, not tomorrow. Until they do, the best incentive is to hold the bonuses back. Varney’s RevenueDavid Varney’s submission to the Gus O’Donnell consultation on merging the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise read like a job application and so it has proved. At an annual salary of just £150,000, there wouldn’t have been an awful lot of competition for the leading businessman the Government was seeking to oversee the process, so when Mr Varney applied, the Treasury must have bitten his hand off to sign him up.

The former mmO2 chairman would be a brilliant catch for any organisation. The Government’s answer is to dangle a carrot in front of Network Rail’s managers and a stick to the rear end of this pantomime horse ­ bonus payments for meeting annual performance targets and the sack for missing them. Last year, they hit two of their three targets but missed the one which matters most ­ punctuality.The NAO is not keen on this arrangement, fearing it will encourage the horse to manipulate performance to keep the nosebag full Sir John would prefer longer term financial targets. The lack of any shareholder in Network Rail, other than the Strategic Rail Authority, does not give it much incentive to become more efficient.

And, as the NAO notes, it leaves the Government exposed to a hefty credit risk (£23bn at the last count). Gordon, the Brown engine, has managed to keep all this borrowing off the public finances with copious use of smoke and mirrors, the latest wheeze being to refinance some debt with £14bn worth of railway bonds, but it will be the taxpayer who picks up the bill if there is a serious derailment. The most solvent ones are already spitting tacks over having to cough up for an industry-wide compensation scheme. So the Government must pay, and if it does it will be deluged with demands for money from hard luck causes the length and breadth of the land. Network RailThere is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel for Network Rail and the good news is that it is not coming from an onrushing train. Yesterday’s report from the Fat Comptroller, Sir John Bourn, hardly amounts to a clean bill of health.

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