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The noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, is right: you have to tell people again and again. I have to tell people a number of times when I am flying that I am paralysed and cannot walk, and so, yes, I do need an aisle chair. Then, when everyone is deplaning, I am told “Don’t try and walk off before everyone else”—it is just exhausting. I have also had a pilot walk to baggage claim to get my chair. That is because I know the rules and I refuse to get off or allow anyone to move me off the plane. What it takes is disabled people knowing the rules and having quite a lot of temerity to argue your case all the time.