Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department has taken with the Scottish Government to assess the effect on railway policing across the border between Scotland and England of the planned integration of British Transport Police in Scotland into Police Scotland.

The UK and Scottish Governments are working together with the two police forces and police authorities through a Joint Programme Board. A central, ongoing focus of that Board is to deliver an orderly transfer of responsibilities and to ensure that the overall level of policing remains seamless and fully effective, including policing across the border.