Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations his Department has received from (a) organisations representing disabled people and (b) disabled people on the accessibility of the rail network.

The Department is committed to ensuring that disabled people have equal access to the rail network. As such, officials and Ministers regularly engage with disabled people and organisations representing disabled people to discuss making the railways more accessible.

This includes, for example, the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, who are statutory independent advisors to the Government; extensive engagement with disabled people and disability organisations in the development and delivery of the Inclusive Transport Strategy; and the Inclusive Transport Stakeholder Group, which brings together the expertise of representative bodies to act as a sounding board for the Department on inclusive travel policy.