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There have been some big wins in the last years. I pay tribute to Tony Jennings, who I have worked with over the last few years. He has changed the scooter policy for ScotRail and Northern; until quite recently, both those train companies banned scooter users. It has taken quite a long time to get to this point. Scooters seem to have been banned because, many years ago, there was a fault on a train when both doors opened, and a scooter user getting on to the train went through one door and fell out the other side. That is horrendous, but we do not ban little old ladies from travelling on trains because one falls down the side of the Elizabeth line, so it does not always feel as if disabled people are being treated terribly equitably.