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349031

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps are being taken to improve access for disabled people at National Rail stations.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	1461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>By the end of this year the Access for All programme, launched in 2006, will have provided step free routes to more than 150 stations and smaller scale improvements at over 1,100. A further £160m has been allocated to extend the programme until 2019 and the 68 stations to benefit from this were announced last year.</p><p> </p><p>This is in addition to access improvements delivered by other major projects or the industry itself, which must meet UK and EU standards for accessibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 15/06/2015 14:14:48 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

515006

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress has been made on increasing the number of wheelchair accessible stations from street to platform level at National Rail and London Underground stations.
	tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
	tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
	uin	35128
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>We take improving station accessibility very seriously and the Access for All programme has delivered step free access at over 150 stations with a further 68 projects in construction or development. In addition, whenever infrastructure work is carried out at stations it must meet current accessibility standards. For example, when Crossrail fully opens in 2019, all 40 stations on the route will also have step free access.</p><p> </p><p>Step free access to London Underground is a matter for Transport for London, but I understand that 66 Tube stations and 57 London Overground stations currently have step-free access, and Docklands Light Railway stations are all step-free.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/04/2016 16:40:41 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

661803

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2016
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make representations to Network Rail to ensure that it adds disabled access routes into (a) Brookmans Park railway station and (b) other suburban railway stations with limited access.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	58270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2017 answer text <p>We remain committed to improving station accessibility and have continued with the Access for All programme, launched in 2006. All of the available Access for All funding is allocated until at least 2019. Should further funding become available in the future we will commission new nominations for projects.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, whenever infrastructure work is carried out at a station by the industry, it must comply with the relevant EU and UK standards. These can be found at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accessible-railway-stations-design-standards" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/accessible-railway-stations-design-standards</a>. My Rt Hon Friend may therefore wish to contact Network Rail to see if any work is planned at Brookmans Park that might trigger these requirements.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 09/01/2017 12:20:59 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

748510

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to improve access to rail stations for disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	3171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>We are committed to improving accessibility of the rail network. Currently 70% of train fleets operating passenger services meet modern accessibility standards, up from just 39% as at January 2011, with the remaining vehicles due to be either upgraded or replaced by 1 January 2020. We are continuing to improve station access through the Access for All programme and other major projects such as Thameslink or Crossrail. By 2019 at least 75% of all journeys will be from stations with step-free access.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/07/2017 06:02:44 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

755167

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport on 29 April 2014 (HCWS47), whether they will publish the agreed deadlines for the completion of disability access improvements as part of the Access for All scheme at each of the 42 railway stations mentioned in that statement.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Randerson
	uin	HL1175
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>We remain committed to delivering the Access for All programme in full and details of all the stations selected since 2006 are available on the Network Rail website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.networkrail.co.uk%2Fcommunities%2Fpassengers%2Fstation-improvements%2Faccess-for-all%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CQWA.HoL.Gatekeeper%40parliament.uk%7Cfb82072185c047b6d40208d4d2782845%7C1ce6dd9eb3374088be5e8dbbec04b34a%7C0%7C0%7C636364860910138357&amp;sdata=GwJfyeyWKasXEaPuGti1%2F%2FC6Q6MVrCskoV1yxjKO%2FUE%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/passengers/station-improvements/access-for-all/</a></p><p> </p><p>This includes the current planned completion timescales for the stations in construction or development.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/07/2017 09:14:51 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	4230 label Biography information for Baroness Randerson

771603

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much has been spent on improving the accessibility of train stations for disabled people under Network Rail's Access for All scheme since 2014 in each region.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	107818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>The spend on Access for All projects is recorded by Network Rail route and the cost of work done to date since 2014 is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Anglia £11.872m</p><p>East Midlands £1.184m</p><p>London North East £20.599m</p><p>London North West £15.476m</p><p>Scotland £13.112m</p><p>Sussex £2.196m</p><p>Wales £6.387m</p><p>Wessex £12.828m</p><p>Western £5.583m</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 19/10/2017 12:29:20 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

785029

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which railway stations do not have step-free access.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	111524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2017 answer text <p>Information on the accessibility facilities available at individual stations, including step free access arrangements, is collected and held by the Rail Delivery Group and published on the National Rail Enquiries website. If any disabled passenger is unable to use a particular station the train operating company is obliged to arrange alternative transport at no additional cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 14/11/2017 11:10:17 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

786458

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of stations on the rail network do not have staff available to assist disabled passengers who arrive at a station without having made an advance booking.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	111946
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>Station staffing is a matter for individual train operating companies. Details of the staff available at individual stations are published on the National Rail Enquiries website. The Government does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>As part of their licence to operate each train operating company is required to have a Disabled Persons’ Protection Policy (DPPP) in place. This sets out the level of services and facilities that disabled passengers can expect, how to get staff assistance and how to get help if things do go wrong. Within this policy, train operating companies must commit to participating in the Passenger Assist system.</p><p> </p><p>The Equalities Act 2010 requires that train operating companies make reasonable adjustments to allow access to their services. For example, if a passenger cannot access a particular station, train operating companies are required to provide a free accessible taxi to the nearest accessible station.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 17/11/2017 09:41:35 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

971385

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make representations with Northern Rail on improving disabled access in train stations (a) in Blackburn and (b) across the North of England.
	tabling member constituency	Blackburn
	tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
	uin	172543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Inclusive Transport Strategy, strategy published on 25 July 2018, included a commitment to extend our Access for All programme across rail Control Period 6 (2019 to 2024) with an additional £300m of funding from the public purse.</p><p> </p><p>We have asked the industry to nominate stations for the new funding by 16 November this year. Nominated stations will be selected based on their annual footfall, weighted by the incidence of disability in the area. We will take into account local factors such as proximity to a hospital or the availability of third party funding for the project. We will also ensure that there is a fair geographical spread of projects across the country.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 13/09/2018 13:11:10 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

999338

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding the Government makes available to (a) install step free access and (b) otherwise improve disabled access at train stations in England.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	186314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Inclusive Transport Strategy included a commitment to extend our Access for All programme across rail Control Period 6 (2019 to 2024) with an additional £300m of funding from the public purse.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, each of the franchised operators has around £100,000 to £600,000 to spend annually at stations to improve accessibility for disabled people at stations.</p><p> </p><p>Also, upgrades carried out under major projects and planned renewals work must meet current accessibility standards.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/11/2018 17:18:50 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds