Transport Committee - Fourteenth Report
Cable theft on the railway

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 January 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

Our inquiry

2 Cable theft on the railway

Scale of the problem

Frequency

Regional differences

Costs of cable theft

Direct costs

Indirect costs

Effects of cable theft

Passengers

Freight

Safety

3 Causes

Offender profiles

Global commodity markets

Scrap metal industry

Background

Role in supply chain

4 Prevention

Rail industry

Police

Government

5 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

8 November 2011
29 November 2011

Written Evidence

Additional Written Evidence (unprinted)

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Prepared 26 January 2012