The Rt Hon Stephen McPartland

Norman Baker (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Regional and Local Transport), Transport added in the course of the debate that “Although Stevenage is already deemed to be accessible, as my hon. Friend rightly mentioned, we are ploughing in money from the Access for All programme to convert two of the goods lifts to passenger lifts, at a cost of £578,000. In addition, Access for All money has already been used to fund the installation of ticket office induction loops, a low-level, split-level ticket office counter, handrails to existing staircases and compliant “Meeting Point” signage............ The coalition Government have made it a priority to try to improve disabled access at stations”.