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Bicycles: Theft

Asked by Matt VickersConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 15 December 2025UIN 97607

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the British Transport Police's crime-screening policy introduced in August 2024, if she will publish the formal guidance for pedal-cycle theft (J13) and the operational factors used to determine when an offence is progressed to investigation; and if she will publish quarterly data showing the number of (a) pedal-cycle thefts reported, (b) investigated, and (c) closed without investigation, broken down by (i) cycle value and the (ii) availability of (A) CCTV and (B) witness evidence.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The British Transport Police (BTP), like their Home Office force counterparts, are operationally independent and decisions on whether to release guidance are for the Chief Constable to make.

Crime figures for the BTP are collated by the Home Office and published on the Office for National Statistics website.

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