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Railways: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the accessibility of the railways for disabled people.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 9 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 13 Jan 2025
Answer: 15 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve the accessibility of the railways for disabled people.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
We are carefully considering the best approach to the Access for All programme. Since April 2024, 13 stations have been completed with a further 18 due to be completed by April 2025. This will be the most stations completed in one year since the programme...

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