Railways: Crimes of Violence
Commons · Question 18371 · Tabled 13 Jul 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 4 Aug 2026
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many knife-enabled crimes were recorded by the British Transport Police as having occurred on board trains in each of the last 30 years.
Answer
Answered by Keir Mather, 4 Aug 2026
British Transport Police (BTP) holds readily extractable, comparable data for knife-enabled crimes on board trains over the past five years. Providing comparable figures for each of the last 30 years would require a manual review of historic records which...