Developing Countries: Disability

(asked on 23rd June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, in what ways her Department's work to give people in developing countries better access to financial services takes account of (a) lack of braille facilities, (b) laws and practices discriminating against people with disabilities and (c) other barriers experienced by people with disabilities.


Answered by
Baroness Featherstone Portrait
Baroness Featherstone
This question was answered on 30th June 2014

Our financial sector development programmes work to strengthen regulation, build infrastructure and improve financial capability to increase the access of poor people, including disadvantaged groups, to financial services that meet their needs.

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