§ Mr. Tony Banksasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many attacks there have been in the last five years on (a) passengers and (b) employees on (i) London Regional Transport services or property and (ii) British Rail Southern Region services or property.
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§ Mr. David Mitchell[pursuant to his reply, 22 April 1987, c. 572]: The British Transport police has provided the following figures relating to criminal assaults:
Year London Underground BR Southern Region (a) (b) (a) (b) passengers employees passengers employees 1982 758 73 303 47 1983 662 104 292 87 1984 1,008 84 323 84 1985 1,205 80 379 80 1986 1,370 105 448 69 Notes:
(1) Criminal assaults comprise murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, grievous bodily harm, malicious wounding, actual bodily harm, robbery and assault with intent to rob.
(2) Figures are based on the date of input to the BTP computer, which can be some time after the date on which offences were committed, and do not precisely reflect annual trends in actual offences.
(3) Figures for London buses are not separately identifiable.
(4) Figures for passengers on BR Southern Region include a small number of serious assaults on police, which are not separately identifiable.