Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 22274

Railways: Gender Based Violence

Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 15 January 2025

Question

Kirsty Blackman

Scottish National PartyAberdeen North

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of lighting on trains on the levels of violence against women and girls travelling on the network.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
The National Travel Attitudes Survey on perceptions of safety when walking, cycling and using public transport, found that a ‘poorly lit vehicle or carriage’ was the joint seventh most popular reason for feeling unsafe when travelling on a public transpor...

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