Rolling Stock: Disability
Commons · Question 30726 · Tabled 11 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Euan Stainbank
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing the use of tricycles as mobility aids in the Persons with Reduced Mobility National Technical Specification Notice for passenger rail services.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 18 Feb 2025
The Persons with Reduced Mobility National Technical Specification Notice (PRM-NTSN) sets out the dimensions, weights, and capabilities of wheelchairs so that users can travel across the rail network. No assessment has been made to bring tricycles into sc...