Worst rail firm pays £11m to shareholders
The Sunday Mirror|August 21, 2022
..after it got £17m taxpayers' cash
GERALDINE MCKELVIE and ALEX CLARKE
Worst rail firm pays £11m to shareholders

BRITAIN'S most under-fire rail firm paid £11million to its shareholders while accepting government cash during the pandemic.

Figures uncovered by Labour show Avanti shareholders got the dividends for the financial year 2020/21.

And between 2019 and 2021, the Department for Transport paid the firm more than £17million in performance and management fees.

That was despite the fact that Avanti was the worst-performing rail operator, with almost half its services arriving late.

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