Mentions:
1: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) The elderly and people who are not able to drive due to disability cannot rely on irregular and lengthy - Speech Link
2: Rennie, Willie (LD - North East Fife) The railway line runs right through the burgh. - Speech Link
3: Eagle, Tim (Con - Highlands and Islands) I particularly welcome its support for the planning and delivery of new railway stations. - Speech Link
4: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) I thank Liam Kerr for raising the subject of new railway stations—in this case, at Cove and Newtonhill - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) I remind the committee that I am a patron of Disability Equality Scotland.Even at this quite early stage - Speech Link
2: None passengers wanted to see as interior features of new trains, and we have talked to organisations such as Disability - Speech Link
3: None A lot of community groups in Scotland help at stations. - Speech Link
4: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) At some railway stations on the north line, people still have to hail the train if they want it to stop - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I beg to move,That this House has considered staffing of railway stations in Cumbria.It is an absolute - Speech Link
2: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) purchase tickets at railway stations: about one in every 10 transactions in 2022-23 took place in a - Speech Link
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 113209 on Railway Stations: Disability, what progress his Department has made on conducting a network-wide accessibility audit of station facilities at all 2,565 mainline railway stations in Great Britain to inform future investment decisions.
Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
Work is now complete on auditing all stations across Great Britain to understand how accessible they are for passengers with a range of requirements. We have commissioned the Great British Railways Transition Team to implement data platforms to (a) allow passengers to access this information to better plan their journeys and (b) allow the rail industry to better plan how they operate the network.
Asked by: Vicky Foxcroft (Labour - Lewisham, Deptford)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2023 to Question 191230 on Railway Stations: Disability, when he expects the Great British Railways Transition Team to publish data on the accessibility of station facilities.
Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Great British Railways Transition Team is working with Network Rail and the Department to consider how to make Accessibility Audit data available to the public. This work is underway, and we will announce further details in due course.
Mentions:
1: Bill Wiggin (Con - North Herefordshire) A 2019 study found that the only disability measure in approximately 190 stations was a hearing induction - Speech Link
2: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) right to make the point that, slowly but surely across the country, we are upgrading and improving railway - Speech Link
3: Guy Opperman (Con - Hexham) I wondered when the issue of restoring a railway would feature in tonight’s debate, and I was not disappointed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) Disgracefully, it was proposed at one point that seven stations on the Elizabeth line would be denied - Speech Link
2: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) been overwhelmingly about aviation, but I suggest that a similar story could and should be told about railway - Speech Link
Dec. 15 2023
Source Page: The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: annual report 2020 to 2022Found: stations in Great Britain, one of the key actions to emerge from the Williams Review.
Dec. 15 2023
Source Page: The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: annual report 2020 to 2022Found: stations in Great Britain, one of the key actions to emerge from the Williams Review.
Mentions:
1: Chris Loder (CON - West Dorset) That mission is to ensure that the staffed hours at West Dorset railway stations are protected and definitely - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Has he spoken to disabled people or his Department’s disability champion? - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) My constituency has three railway stations: Warrington Central, Warrington Bank Quay and Warrington West - Speech Link
4: Martin Vickers (CON - Cleethorpes) I am fortunate to have 10 railway stations in my constituency, but only one, Cleethorpes, currently has - Speech Link
5: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) To name but a few: East Midlands Railway has 16 stations that would become unstaffed, with just daily - Speech Link