Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure that a reliable service is operated across the rail network after the provisions on persons with reduced mobility included in the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011 and the Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Non-Interoperable Rail Systems) regulations 2010 are implemented in 2020.

There is not expected to be any change to reliability of services due to improvements to accessibility of trains. Indeed the modern trains which are transforming journey’s for all passengers on our network today are fully accessible and reliable.