Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve accessibility on the railway for disabled passengers.

The Government’s Inclusive Transport Strategy: Achieving Equal Access for Disabled People was published in July 2018. Its ambition is to create a transport system that provides equal access for disabled people by 2030, with assistance if physical infrastructure remains a barrier.

The Inclusive Transport Strategy included a commitment to extend our Access for All programme to 2024 with an additional £300m of funding from the public purse.

The Department will be introducing a new set of accessibility requirements such as the introduction and the delivery of enhanced disability awareness training to all train operating company staff, regardless of role or seniority, in future rail franchises.