Written questions

Railways: CCTV

Commons · Question 10713 · Tabled 17 Jun 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 26 Jun 2026

Question

Asked by Jerome Mayhew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the cost of linking CCTV from railway stations, trackside CCTV and CCTV from train cabs together into a single platform.

Answer

Answered by Keir Mather, 26 Jun 2026

The Department for Transport (DfT) is funding nearly £17 million for a Network Rail programme to connect existing station CCTV to the British Transport Police and wider rail industry into a single cloud-based system. This work is in the early stages of de...