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.
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.