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1st Report – Access denied: rights versus reality in disabled people's access to transport
Transport Committee
HC 770
Published 20 March 2025
Recommendations
3
Accepted in Part
Publish new Inclusive Transport Strategy within 12 months with clear metrics, actions, and costed milestones.
Recommendation
The Government should publish within 12 months a new Inclusive Transport Strategy. This strategy must have a stretching ambition, but one underpinned by metrics, actions, costings and milestones which clearly map out a practical pathway to deliver on that ambition. …
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Government Response Summary
The government accepts the need for an improved strategic approach to accessibility but will incorporate it within its forthcoming Integrated Transport Strategy (INTS) rather than publishing a separate Inclusive Transport Strategy, ensuring it has a clear action plan, milestones, and specific focus on people.
Department for Transport
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5
Accepted in Part
Commit to publishing a roadmap for achieving independent rail network accessibility within 12 months.
Recommendation
As part of a new Inclusive Transport Strategy, the Government must set out concrete timescales for achieving independent accessibility across the rail network, and commit to setting out within 12 months a road map for how to meet those timescales. …
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Government Response Summary
The government will publish an Accessibility Roadmap later this year, outlining measures and initiatives to be undertaken before Great British Railways is established, but it does not explicitly commit to setting concrete timescales for achieving full independent accessibility across the entire rail network.
Department for Transport
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7
Accepted in Part
Publish full station accessibility audit information and an open data register of key assets.
Recommendation
Station accessibility audit information must be published in full within two months of this report to permit independent scrutiny of progress, the resources required and any decisions made to rule out works at particular locations. In its Inclusive Transport Strategy, …
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Government Response Summary
The government states that rail station accessibility audit data is already available on the Rail Data Marketplace. For bus and rail accessibility assets, the Department is undertaking discovery work to capture this data within NaPTAN for future journey planning tools.
Department for Transport
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Accepted in Part
Share DPTAC's policy involvement work plan and publish quarterly impact reports.
Recommendation
The Department should share with this Committee a work plan mapping out DPTAC’s involvement in upcoming policy decisions, and publish quarterly reports detailing the impact that DPTAC has had on the Department’s decision-making. (Recommendation, Paragraph 77)
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Government Response Summary
The government states that DPTAC's publishing decisions are for DPTAC itself, but notes that DPTAC has agreed to enhance its public reporting by publishing regular work programme updates and meeting minutes at least quarterly.
Department for Transport
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Accepted in Part
Establish an expert unit to review, benchmark, and standardise transport accessibility training packages.
Recommendation
It is not sufficient for training to be delivered on disability awareness, accessibility and preventing discrimination: the training must be of a guaranteed minimum standard and proven to be effective in improving outcomes. The Department for Transport should, with the …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees there is merit in reviewing, benchmarking, and standardising training packages across transport modes. It will work with DPTAC and disabled persons organisations to assess how this can be undertaken timely to support new statutory training requirements, though it doesn't commit to establishing a dedicated expert unit.
Department for Transport
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