Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments, in addition to agreed contracts, have been made by Network Rail to (a) Mitie and (b) Interserve as a result of the need to increase the cleaning regime on Network Rail stations and estates in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Network Rail has made additional payments to cleaning providers to cover the provision of an anti-viral product used in public areas of stations, incidents where emergency cleans have been required and to enable an implementation of a sick pay uplift to ensure that cleaning staff are able to self-isolate if necessary.