AQW 46216/11-15

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 26/05/2015
Answered On Date: 08/06/2015
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Regional Development for an update on the Accessible Transport Strategy 2015-2025.

Answer:

My Department is preparing a draft Accessible Transport Strategy 2025 for public consultation in the coming months.

A pre-consultation stage has involved engagement with focus groups comprising older and disabled people and their representative bodies to determine key issues of concern. Also, my Department has undertaken a survey of the attitudes of disabled and older people to public transport, in conjunction with the Inclusive Mobility Transport Advisory Committee (IMTAC). The results of this survey were published in April 2015.

An Inter Departmental Steering Group has met to provide advice on how the policies, strategies and initiatives of other Departments will impact on accessible travel and transport in the future.

In developing a draft Strategy for public consultation, my officials are consulting IMTAC as a source of advice on the issues to be addressed.