Written questions

Bicycles: Theft

Commons · Question 97607 · Tabled 5 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 15 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the British Transport Police's crime-screening policy introduced in August 2024, if she will publish the formal guidance for pedal-cycle theft (J13) and the operational factors used to determi

Answer

Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 15 Dec 2025

The British Transport Police (BTP), like their Home Office force counterparts, are operationally independent and decisions on whether to release guidance are for the Chief Constable to make. Crime figures for the BTP are collated by the Home Office and pu...