Clause 17 - The British Transport Police Authority
Railways and Transport Safety Bill
2:30 pm
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, especially as he mentioned Wiltshire and bigamy. My purpose in mentioning bigamy this morning was to emphasise the diminishing number of offences in relation to which the British Transport police are not empowered to act. I wanted to probe the Minister—if that is the correct phrase—on which offences come outside the powers of the BTP, because bigamy is the only one that I could find.