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1150238

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date	17/10/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on rail stations that are inaccessible to people with disabilities; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	900033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p><em>We are committed to improving accessibility at rail stations, and have recently extended the Access for All programme with £300m to provide accessibility improvements at even more stations. This is in addition to improvements required whenever infrastructure work is carried out at a station by the industry.</em></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 17/10/2019 16:36:08 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

1110598

registered interest
date	09/04/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timescale is for groups to apply for the Mid-Tier Access for All programme.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	242933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>We have made £20m available for Mid-Tier Access for All projects. Details of how this funding will be allocated are being finalised now and we intend to open the nomination process later this summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 15/04/2019 11:27:53 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

861169

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
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 from the public purse through the Access to All fund to make improvements to railway stations in each years since 2006.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	132318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Since 2006, spending through the Access for All programme is as follows:</p><p>(£m)</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2006/09</p></td><td><p>£102.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>£57.89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£43.67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£54.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£52.18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£105.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£47.96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£43.19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>£42.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£15.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note that funding isn’t allocated on a specific annualised basis. Projects get developed and built over several years, so in some years more is spent, in some years less. We have committed to continuing Access for All in CP6.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 16/03/2018 14:44:04 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

861170

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, of what factors Network Rail and his Department take account in deciding on allocations of Access to All funding.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	132319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>For the last tranche of funding, stations were selected based on their annual footfall, weighted by the incidence of disability in the area. We also took into account the priorities of the industry, the availability of third party funding and local factors such as proximity to a hospital, together with consideration of geographic spread across the rail network.</p><p> </p><p>Although details of how we will select stations for future funding has yet to be finalised it is likely to be broadly similar to the process used for earlier tranches of the programme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 16/03/2018 12:24:52 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

861171

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what public funding other than Access to All funding is available for improvements to accessibility at railway stations.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	132320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Aside from the dedicated Access for All funding, two funds are partly dedicated to improving accessibility - each of the franchised operators has around £100,000 to £600,000 to spend annually in making accessibility improvements at stations as part of the Minor Works Budget; and the Station Improvement Fund introduced in the Northern Rail and West Midlands Railway franchises can also be used to make stations accessible.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, there are five other funding streams which may help deliver accessibility improvements insofar as any upgrades delivered under them would have to comply with current accessibility standards – the National Stations Improvement Programme, the Station Commercial Project Facility, Customer and Community Investment, Designated Community Rail Development Fund and Major Projects works (as per the redevelopment of Reading station for example).</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 16/03/2018 13:35:03 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

861181

registered interest
date	13/03/2018
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railway Stations: Access
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which railway stations have received Access for All funding in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	132330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2018 answer text <p>Access for All funding is allocated in 5 year Control Periods. For 2014-19 a further 68 stations were selected for the programme. Details of all of the stations which have received funding since 2006 are available on the Network Rail website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/passengers/station-improvements/access-for-all/" target="_blank">https://www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/passengers/station-improvements/access-for-all/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 16/03/2018 13:37:22 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George