Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 18371

Trains: Crimes of Violence

Tabled: 13 July 2026

Answered: 4 August 2026

Named Day

Question

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

Keir Mather

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...

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