Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions his Department or officials have had with the Office of Rail and Road on his Department's consultation on Disabled People's Protection Policy: guidance changes for train and station operators, which closed on 15 February 2019.

Both the Department and the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee, the statutory independent expert committee which advises Government on the transport needs of disabled people, provided formal responses to the Office of Rail and Road’s consultation on changes to the Disabled People’s Protection Policy guidance. The Department was also a member of the Office of Rail and Road’s Assisted Travel Advisory Group which met prior to the consultation launch, and attended an industry consultation event they ran in November.