Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what additional payments have been made by Northern Rail to its cleaning sub-contractor, beyond those already agreed in its existing contract, as a result of the need to enhance the cleaning regime on its trains and stations in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

Whilst Northern’s train cleaning is done in house, cleaning for stations is sub-contracted and so any payments made for the cleaning of stations are a commercial matter between Northern Trains Ltd and the contractor.