Buses: Wheelchair Users

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Tuesday 15th May 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Morgan (Lab)]

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, will know, the Oxford Tube bus service has an infallible and excellent system for dealing with wheelchair users, and it operates with complete efficiency. Why cannot other bus companies emulate that service?

[Baroness Sugg]

My Lords, I am pleased to hear of the provision of the Oxford Tube service. For many disabled people, the quality of their interactions with coach and bus drivers will be as important as physical accessibility. Since March, it has been a mandatory requirement for drivers of local and scheduled buses to complete disability awareness training, and we are working with the industry and enforcement bodies to ensure that that requirement is implemented effectively. As I said, we are working on guidance for this training and will certainly look at what the Oxford Tube is doing.

Universities: Student Immigration System

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Tuesday 15th February 2011 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right in all respects.

[Lord Morgan]

My Lords, has not this been seen by Universities UK as a deeply harmful policy to our universities that threatens both their global reputation and perhaps £2 billion of their income? Is not the Government's policy founded on the fallacy that students are considered as migrants—in other words, as permanent rather than temporary residents of this country? Given the Government's policy on university fees, is this not a further serious blow to the well-being of one of the glories of our country?

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I seem to be struggling to convince the House that we are determined to protect our overseas students, whom we value immensely.