Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Oral Answers to Questions

Thangam Debbonaire Excerpts
Thursday 24th May 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Forgive me; these are very informative answers, but we have a lot of questions to get through, so we need short answers and short questions.

Thangam Debbonaire Portrait Thangam Debbonaire (Bristol West) (Lab)
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Disabled passengers in the Lawrence Hill area of my constituency are not being served with step-free access, although they have been promised it for some years. They have to get a train upline and then another downline on the other side before they can get to Temple Meads to get a mainline train. Will the Minister meet me and Councillor Margaret Hickman to discuss this urgently?

Nusrat Ghani Portrait Ms Ghani
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Of course I am happy to meet the hon. Lady to talk about accessibility in her constituency. As I mentioned earlier, Access for All funding is available for train stations; if she were alluding to a tube station, that would be another situation altogether. As she is talking about a train station, I am more than happy to meet her.