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Rail Passenger Security

Volume 476: debated on Tuesday 3 June 2008

12. To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what steps her Department is taking to improve the personal security of railway passengers. (207982)

The railway is a low crime environment with around 120 offences per million passengers. The British Transport Police's crime statistics for 2007-08 show that for the fourth year running, crime is down 11 per cent. despite 1.2 billion passengers travelling on the network, the highest numbers since the war.