Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has assessed evidence from other European countries to support effective policy making to support disabled people to access urban centres and simultaneously reducing car use in those areas.

In the Inclusive Transport Strategy published in July 2018, the Department made a commitment to revise its guidance on accessible street design. We envisage that this guidance on ‘Inclusive Mobility’ will be published by the end of the year. The revisions to the guidance are based on research published by the Department in 2018 and 2020.

We are also revising the Manual for Streets, our key piece of design guidance on street design, and an updated version will be published next year. The work will consider the recommendations of research that was jointly commissioned by the Department and Transport Scotland on inclusive street design, which included reviewing evidence from UK, European and global research studies.

The Department and its researchers take account of a wide range of information from the UK and overseas in its policy making.