Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that public transport (a) infrastructure and (b) vehicles in the North East are accessible to people with disabilities.
The Government wants to ensure that transport in all parts of the country is fully accessible to disabled people. The Department for Transport will publish an Inclusive Transport Strategy setting out how we will achieve this later this year.
The Strategy will set out our key policy and investment priorities for improving disabled people’s access to all modes of transport. It will also confirm our timeframes and proposals for monitoring delivery. The Strategy follows a consultation in 2017 on a draft Accessibility Action Plan, which received over 1,000 responses.
The Strategy will build on significant accessibility improvements made nationwide in recent years, including: