PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
British Transport Police: Scotland (16 November 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the Scottish Government's plans to integrate the British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland on the delivery of policing on cross-border trains.

Asked by:
Andrew Bowie (Conservative)

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.

Answered by:
Paul Maynard (Conservative)
21 November 2017