PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Railway Stations: Visual Impairment (4 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the need to bring forward the 2029 deadline for Network Rail to install tactile indicators across operational platforms.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

We have continued to support the Access for All programme that upgrades railway stations, including Handforth station, for disabled passengers, and also for those with visual impairments.

I have asked Network Rail to develop a programme to aim to install platform edge tactile strips on every platform in Great Britain.

I will make a further announcement in due course.

Answered by:
Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative)
14 June 2021