To ask Her Majesty's Government how many crimes involving metal theft affecting the operation of the railways were reported to police forces in Great Britain in the past two years. [HL669]

This information is not held by the Department for Transport but by the British Transport Police, which can be contacted at: British Transport Police, 25 Camden Road, London, NW1 9LN, e-mail: parliament@btp.pnn.police.uk.