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Railway Stations: Crime

Asked by Mr Richard HoldenConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 4 August 2026UIN 18157

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many knife-enabled crimes were recorded by the British Transport Police as having occurred at railway stations in each of the last 30 years.

Answered by Keir Mather

British Transport Police (BTP) holds readily extractable, comparable data for knife-enabled crimes at railway stations over the past five years. Providing comparable figures for each of the last 30 years would require a manual review of historic records which was not possible within the required timescales.

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