Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 June 2025 to Question 54450 on Transport: Disability, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that transport operators in Fylde comply with the disability (a) awareness and (b) assistance training requirements proposed in the Bus Services (No.2) Bill.

The Bus Services (No.2) Bill will require relevant bus staff to complete both disability awareness and disability assistance training to give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to support every passenger appropriately.

The Bill provisions include a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations prescribing how carriers and terminal managing bodies should collate and publish data on the completion of relevant training by their staff. The Traffic Commissioners will be able to use existing powers to issue a financial penalty in the case of non-compliance.