Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 22274
Railways: Gender Based Violence
Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 15 January 2025
Question
Kirsty Blackman
Scottish National Party — Aberdeen 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 LightwoodThe 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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