London North Eastern Railway: Cleaning Services

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department made as to whether it would be more (a) economical, (b) efficient and (c) safe for LNER to bring cleaning services in-house, rather than outsourcing it to Atalian Servest; and if he will publish that assessment.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 9th June 2020

It is for LNER to decide how best to resource support functions such as cleaning, and subcontracting these tasks to specialist suppliers is standard practice in the rail sector.

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