{"value":{"id":1169983,"askingMemberId":4676,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-01-10T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","uin":"1932","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what deadline his Department has set for making all train carriages fully accessible.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3977,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>It is extremely disappointing that some train carriages were not made fully accessible by the December 31 2019 deadline.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has reluctantly granted dispensations for some carriages that have not yet met modern accessibility standards, these are time limited and on a case by case basis. If all non-compliant trains had been removed from service on December 31 2019 there would have been a disproportionately negative effect on the provision of services for passengers.</p><p> </p><p>A full list of rolling stock and their associated exemption expiry dates is publicly available at <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exemptions-from-rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-and-their-expiry-dates\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exemptions-from-rail-vehicle-accessibility-regulations-and-their-expiry-dates</a></p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Rolling Stock: Disability","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1169983","method":"GET"}]}