B2.1 | "There must be a partnership from the start" - the partnership was at risk due to an early transition of Tube ownership

Successful partnership was threatened at the outset of the PPPs. The deal was negotiated by the previous owners of the Tube (London Regional Transport), but it was not the Tube's new owners' (Transport for London) intended way of improving the Tube - see NAO report London Underground: Were the Public Private Partnerships good deals?, published simultaneously with this report for more on this. However, according to key personnel within both private and public partners, the transition to a new senior management team at LUL took place smoothly.