Railways: Trespass

(asked on 9th September 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2026 to Question 17399 on Railways: Trespass, how many of the 65,540 trespass incidents recorded by the British Transport Police occurred in each financial year from 2021-22 to 2025-26.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 14th September 2026

The British Transport Police have provided the following data with the yearly breakdown of the number of trespass incidents recorded for the period requested.

Year

Trespass incidents

2021/22

12,101

2022/23

12,033

2023/24

13,046

2024/25

14,067

2025/26

14,293

Total

65,540

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