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Recommendation 24
24
Lead a review of transport accessibility legislation, collaborating with disabled people, to update and clarify standards.
Recommendation
The Department for Transport should lead a review of transport accessibility legislation in collaboration with the Office for Equality and Opportunity, and with meaningful involvement and leadership by disabled people, to assess how it could be streamlined, clarified and updated, and whether it should be underpinned by greater specification of the standards providers must work to. Specification of standards should include matters currently subject 78 only to the Public Sector Equality Duty or the duty to make reasonable adjustments. The review should be completed within 12 months of the publication of this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 124) Regulation and enforcement
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 13 June 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗