Trains: Crimes of Violence
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 on board trains in each of the last 30 years.
Answered by 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 was not possible within the required timescales.
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