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Travel: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help end discrimination against disabled people when travelling abroad.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 6 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 10 Feb 2025
Answer: 14 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help end discrimination against disabled people when travelling abroad.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
Discrimination on transport is not acceptable, and this Government is committed to making its UK transport network safe and easy to use, allowing disabled passengers to travel confidently and with dignity.On travel abroad, the Government works through int...

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