The Department for Transport should lead a review of transport accessibility legislation in collaboration with the Office for Equality and Opportunity, and with meaningful involvement and leadership by disabled people, to assess how it could be streamlined, clarified and updated, and whether it should be underpinned by greater specification of the standards providers must work to. Specification of standards should include matters currently subject 78 only to the Public Sector Equality Duty or...

The Department for Transport should lead a review of transport accessibility legislation in collaboration with the Office for Equality and Opportunity, and with meaningful involvement and leadership by disabled people, to assess how it could be streamlined, clarified and updated, and whether it should be underpinned by greater specification of the standards providers must work to. Specification of standards should include matters currently subject 78 only to the Public Sector Equality Duty or the duty to make reasonable adjustments. The review should be completed within 12 months of the publication of this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 1 Type: conclusion | Number: 24 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 28. The Department accepts the need to look again at the legislative framework for accessibility in transport. The inquiry has highlighted the complex nature of the legislative framework that has grown over the years and how this may lead to uncertainty or obfusc