The Department should within 12 months review the roles of enforcement bodies with responsibilities for transport accessibility and prepare to legislate where necessary: • to ensure that all have consistent and sufficient powers at their disposal, and have both the powers and resources needed to intervene formally at lower thresholds than is currently the case; • to assess whether such bodies should be given the power and resources to act on breaches of the Equality Act general duties and the...

The Department should within 12 months review the roles of enforcement bodies with responsibilities for transport accessibility and prepare to legislate where necessary: • to ensure that all have consistent and sufficient powers at their disposal, and have both the powers and resources needed to intervene formally at lower thresholds than is currently the case; • to assess whether such bodies should be given the power and resources to act on breaches of the Equality Act general duties and the Public Sector Equality Duty in matters within their remit, in order to facilitate swifter resolution of breaches and take some of the burden of legal ac Type: conclusion | Number: 29 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 31. The Department agrees that there should be no ambiguity about the importance of all relevant parties fulfilling their duties on accessibility. The Department sets the policy framework for transport accessibility, which regulators enforce. As the inquiry ident