Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for safety in on cross-border trains of the Scottish Government's plans to integrate the British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland.
Answered by Paul Maynard
We are working closely with the Scottish Government, the two police forces and police authorities, through a Joint Programme Board, to ensure that effective arrangements are in place for cross-border railway policing once responsibilities have been transferred, so that we continue to have a railway policing service which protects the safety of passengers.
Asked by: Andrew Bowie (Conservative - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken with the Scottish Government to assess the effect on railway policing across the border between Scotland and England of the planned integration of British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland.
Answered by Paul Maynard
The UK and Scottish Governments are working together with the two police forces and police authorities through a Joint Programme Board. A central, ongoing focus of that Board is to deliver an orderly transfer of responsibilities and to ensure that the overall level of policing remains seamless and fully effective, including policing across the border.