Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 95939

Aviation: Disability

Tabled: 1 December 2025
Answered: 5 December 2025

Question

Navendu Mishra

LabourStockport

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will issue guidelines to airlines on the treatment of passengers with neurological disabilities, including standardised procedures for fitness-to-fly assessments.

Answer

Keir Mather
Aviation must be accessible to all, and everyone has the right to travel with dignity and ease. UK law prohibits refusal of carriage by air based on any disability, impairment, or condition, except where restrictions are required due to safety reasons. Th...

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