Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost is to (a) her Department and (b) train operating companies of outsourced cleaning contracts across the rail network.

Specific data on outsourced cleaning contracts entered into by train operating companies is not held centrally by DfT. We estimate that the 14 DfT train operating companies spend a total of around £100 million per annum on outsourced cleaning (excluding Network Rail costs).