Member

To be clear, the failure to ensure that vital accessibility needs are met is not the fault of the Government, either this one or the last; it is that we omitted a duty to design charging infrastructure for these needs from the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act. My amendment would put it back in. I apologise to the House that it was not mentioned at Second Reading or proposed in Committee, but it was proposed in the other place. I urge the Minister to make this change for disability by accepting this amendment. From his own previous work supporting mobility and transport measures during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, he will be well aware that accessibility needs must be a forefront consideration, not an afterthought.