Railways: Trespass

(asked on 9th July 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of passengers delayed as a result of rail trespass incidents in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 15th July 2026

There were 65,540 trespass incidents recorded by the British Transport Police in the last five years (2021/22 to 2025/26); we do not have an assessment of the number of passengers delayed by these incidents.

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