§ Mr. RaynsfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a list of all the stations under the Network SouthEast operational area indicating whether they are(a) staffed at all times when rail services are operating, (b) unstaffed at certain times of day, (c) unstaffed at weekend or (d) unstaffed at all times, and listing the number of (i) reported assaults, (ii) other reported crimes, (iii) other incidents, (iv) complaints relating to the availability of tickets and (v) other complaints that have occurred at each station over the past year.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information requested is not held centrally and, therefore, is not available in the form requested.
Within the operational area of Network SouthEast, which includes five stations belonging to InterCity, there is a total of 948 stations. Of these, as at June 1993, 191 were totally unstaffed, 104 were staffed at all times when rail services were operating, with the remaining 653 being staffed at certain times during the day. I am placing a list of staffed and unstaffed stations in the Library of the House.
The British Transport police keep statistics of crimes by category rather than by station. The Network SouthEast operational area falls within two of the BTP's operational areas, London north and London south. The total reported crime for the London north area in 1993 was 14,680 and 17,826 for London south. There were a total of 645 reported assaults throughout Network SouthEast in 1993 together with 800 reported robberies.