Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 76072

Blue Badge Scheme: Children

Tabled: 9 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Lewis Cocking

ConservativeBroxbourne

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the separate eligibility criteria for children under three for the Blue Badge scheme.

Answer

Simon Lightwood
Since 17 June 2011, children under the age of three have been eligible for a Blue Badge if they fall under either or both of the following criteria: (a) a child who, because of a condition, must always be accompanied by bulky medical equipment which canno...

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