Member

That is why I speak to my Amendment 42 and indeed all my amendments in this group. I support all the other amendments in it. Amendment 42 would get us a lot of the way to where we need to get to. Having the inclusive by design principle in the Bill would enable statutory guidance and/or a statutory code of practice to have all the details that I have largely set out in all my subsequent amendments. What does “inclusive by design” mean? It does not mean that there are specific provisions for disabled people. It means that, experientially, from the outset, that service or physical feature, whatever it may be, is inclusive by design so that it benefits everybody. It just so happens that disabled people benefit from that, but everybody benefits from it if that principle and the thinking around inclusive by design is threaded through.