Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on strategies to protect transport hubs throughout the UK against terrorist activity.

There is an established system for protecting transport from the threat of terrorism delivered by the Department for Transport in partnership with industry and police. That transport security regime forms part of the Home Office’s wider counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST. As such Ministers and officials are in regular dialogue with Home Office counterparts, striving to ensure that transport security measures are responsive to the evolving threat.