Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the number of cleaners employed to clean LNER’s trains and stations has increased in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
To help prevent the transmission of coronavirus, all rail operators are taking measures to ensure our trains and stations are clean. Steps include a greater focus on cleaning high-touch areas in trains and at stations (such as hand rails and ticket machine screens), more intensive cleaning and ensuring toilets are well stocked with soap. In light of the lower number of trains in service LNER refocused its cleaning contractor’s resources on more intensive cleaning of stations and the trains remaining in service.