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Secondly, the noble Lord’s amendment would require every taxi in England to comply with a single set of standards, taking no account of the variety of access needs that disabled people have. This approach would not only be exclusionary but would risk infringing the Government’s legal public sector equality duty to consider the impact on people with all protected characteristics, including disabled people with a full range of impairments and access needs. The public sector equality duty also applies to all licensing authorities, as they are public authorities.