Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has held recent discussions with disability advocacy groups on the (a) development and (b) implementation of personal emergency evacuation plans for disabled residents.

Home Office officials have met with the Disability Rights UK, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Deafblind UK, the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Inclusion London, the Disability Resource Centre and United Response, and have sought engagement with further advocacy groups (which was not taken up).