Disabled People: Blue Badge Scheme Debate

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Disabled People: Blue Badge Scheme

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Government: Cars
Thursday 25th October 2012

(12 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Elystan-Morgan Portrait Lord Elystan-Morgan
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Is it the case that the ministry took the view that it could not rely upon the integrity and the professional competence of the practitioner, and was there any evidence to support that prejudice?

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My Lords, disabled people’s groups, such as the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, agree that greater use of independent mobility assessments is needed to determine eligibility fairly and robustly.

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