Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it will be in the remit of the Office of Rail and Road to authorise new rail stations without tactile paving.

The authorisation of new stations will be in the remit of the ORR. However, I would not expect any new station to be designed without tactile paving in the first place.

I have also asked Network Rail to develop a plan to equip all existing platforms with tactile paving and expect to make an announcement shortly.