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Amendment 48 is on offboarding times. My noble friend Lord Holmes of Richmond is right to seek to set a limit, but 15 minutes is quite wrong—I am sorry, but it is. Why should a disabled person have to wait 15 minutes after everyone else has left before being taken off? If they have to wait until the last passenger leaves then they should follow immediately after them. I would also challenge that they have to wait until the last passenger leaves. I accept that it may be necessary if a disabled passenger needs an aisle chair and it could take a few minutes for them to get into that chair and out of the aircraft, but in all my travels I have seen hundreds of disabled passengers but only three requiring an aisle chair.