Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much NHS hospital trusts in England spent on cleaning services in each financial year since 2009-10.
The total amount spent on cleaning services by National Health Service hospital trusts is as shown in Table 1, below:
Table 1: Cleaning Services Costs by Year | |
Year | Cleaning Services Costs (£ millions) |
2009/10 | 897.2 |
2010/11 | 938.6 |
2011/12 | 936.5 |
2012/13 | 933.9 |
2013/14 | 904.1 |
2014/15 | 929.2 |
Table 2 (attached separately) gives information on cleaning spend for each NHS hospital trust for 2014-15.