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348746

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2015
	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 he is taking to improve access for disabled people at National Rail stations.
	tabling member constituency	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	tabling member printed	Dr Paul Monaghan
	uin	1300
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 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><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 10/06/2015 14:11:32 question first ministerially corrected 10/06/2015 14:43:40 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 3604 answering member constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough answering member printed Andrew Jones answering member 3996
	tabling member	4383 label Biography information for Dr Paul Monaghan

223386

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2015
	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, how many railway stations in (a) Nottinghamshire, (b) England and (c) the UK are not compliant with disability access guidelines and requirements.
	tabling member constituency	Sherwood
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Spencer
	uin	225208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the accessibility of individual railway stations is collected by the Rail Delivery Group and published as part of the Stations Made Easy facility on the National Rail Enquiries website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/03/2015 16:32:18 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer

224894

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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 estimate he has made of the number of railway stations in (a) England, (b) East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) Haltemprice and Howden constituency that will have full disability access by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	226137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the accessibility of individual railway stations is collected by the Association of Train Operating Companies and published as part of the Stations Made Easy facility on the National Rail Enquiries website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/03/2015 13:55:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

224897

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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, how many railway stations in (a) England, (b) East Riding of Yorkshire and (c) Haltemprice and Howden constituency do not have disability access.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	226139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>Information on the accessibility of individual railway stations is collected by the Association of Train Operating Companies and published as part of the Stations Made Easy facility on the National Rail Enquiries website at:</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/default.aspx</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/03/2015 14:01:35 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

224898

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2015
	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 estimate he has made of the number of stations that will be only partially accessible to disabled passengers in 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
	tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
	uin	226140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2020 end date applies to rolling stock accessibility and not stations. However, when infrastructure work is carried out at stations it must meet EU and UK accessibility standards. In addition, the Access for All programme will have provided step free routes at more than 220 stations by 2019 and has already delivered smaller scale access improvements at more than 1,100 stations.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/03/2015 14:06:31 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

224522

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2015
	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 his Department is taking to improve access for people with disabilities at rural train stations.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	225866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Access for All programme has delivered 140 accessible routes at stations, with a further 78 due for completion by 2019. More than 1,100 stations have also received smaller scale access improvements and many of these have been at rural stations. Any infrastructure work carried out at stations must meet UK and EU accessibility standards.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/03/2015 14:58:10 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies

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