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Active Travel England: Disability

Asked by Anneliese DoddsLabour (Co-op)Department for TransportTabled Answered 22 July 2025UIN 67432

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress Active Travel England has made on creating a disabled people's panel to help inform its work.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

Active Travel England (ATE) does not have any current plans to create a disabled people’s panel and does not set policy. ATE routinely works with the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and disabled representative organisations to improve its output, such as guidance products.

ATE is setting up a technical advisory group to help improve its products and processes so they better address the barriers people face to active travel, particularly those from underrepresented groups.

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