The UK Department for Transport has published a report titled "Independent report: Independent regulatory review of the Office of the Rail and Road (ORR)", dated 3 September 2026 and produced by Dr Richard Judge.
The publication, carried on the Department for Transport website, records that the independent regulatory review was prepared by Dr Richard Judge and is presented under that title. The Department for Transport release gives the report a formal place on the government record dated 2026-09-03.
The document name and the author are the principal facts released by the Department for Transport. No further material from the report is quoted or summarised here beyond the published title, the date of publication and the name of the reviewer.
Independent regulatory reviews are commissioned to examine the structure and delivery of public regulation and to consider questions of governance, accountability and institutional design. The Department for Transport's announcement identifies the exercise by name and attributes authorship to Dr Richard Judge.
The publication of the report on the Department for Transport website is the decisive act recorded in the release; the department's entry supplies the title, the date and the author and therefore establishes the record of the review.
For readers seeking the original record, the Department for Transport notice is the definitive pointer to the report as published on 3 September 2026 and to the fact that Dr Richard Judge produced the independent regulatory review.
Authorship and presentation
The material published by the Department for Transport states the reviewer as Dr Richard Judge. The heading used for the item on the government website is the same as the report title given here.
What the Department for Transport published
The Department for Transport entry records the publication of the independent regulatory review of the Office of the Rail and Road and provides the formal title, the date of publication and the reviewer’s name. Those three items constitute the core facts set out in the government release.
Readers and organisations interested in the review will find the Department for Transport notice to be the official publication record for that report dated 3 September 2026 and produced by Dr Richard Judge.