Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to take steps to increase the number of playgrounds that are accessible to disabled children.

Through our national design guidance we encourage public spaces, including play areas, to be designed in an accessible and inclusive way.

The department is investing £9 million through the Levelling Up Parks Fund to regenerate green spaces across the UK as part of our Levelling Up agenda.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund will also play a role in enabling local authorities to develop parks and open spaces to create greater pride in place through cleaner, greener and safer spaces, if places chose to fund these interventions.

The Government is currently developing its Disability Action Plan, which will set out the immediate action it will take in 2023 and 2024 to improve disabled people's lives, as well as laying the foundations for longer term change.