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HOME AFFAIRS – PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR TRAIN STAFF - 03 November 2025

HOME AFFAIRS – PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR TRAIN STAFF - 03 November 2025

Sir Julian Lewis: I will be very brief. When the Home Secretary undertakes lessons learned and recommendations for the future, will she look into the question of whether there is any protective equipment, or even disabling equipment of a non-lethal nature, that could be issued to staff for use in such an emergency?

[The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Shabana Mahmood): The right hon. Gentleman will know that tasers were deployed on Saturday to bring this incident to a close. However, I can assure him that even if that is not part of the wider lessons learned from this case once all the facts are known, I will take his points into consideration.]