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Debate between Paul Maynard and Claire Perry
Thursday 11th June 2015

(9 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Claire Perry Portrait Claire Perry
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The hon. Lady will be pleased to know that 83% of buses operating in the UK now meet legal accessibility requirements, and that will rise to almost 100% by the end of next year. She is right to focus on talking buses—something that she and I have worked on with the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association—but we have been advised that the cost of rolling that out across the country is prohibitively high. However, another way—I am sure that she, as a highly experienced digital expert, will approve of this—is to make all data on public transport open-sourced so that applications such as the Next Stop app, which is being trialled in Leeds, can be rolled out. That would give a much more personalised service to disabled people accessing public transport.

Paul Maynard Portrait Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys) (Con)
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I am sure that the Minister welcomes the progress being made across the country in improving disabled access, but will she look at the issue of theoretical access, where elevators are often left out of order for days, if not weeks, on end, making disabled access only theoretical?

Claire Perry Portrait Claire Perry
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I would be delighted to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that further.