ACCESSIBILITY OF CONNEX SOUTH CENTRALS TRAINS

Early day motion 777, tabled 30 June 1999 by Anne Begg (Labour). Signed by 37 members.

That this House condemns Connex South Central for continuing to run passenger trains between Gatwick and Victoria which mean that wheelchair-using passengers are forced to travel in the luggage van, which is not only an affront to all disabled people but must also give a very bad impression to international disabled travellers whose first experience of British attitudes is the journey from Gatwick Airport to London; and calls on Connex South Central to upgrade its rolling stock and bring this barbaric practice to an end before the arrival of the new millennium.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 2, Labour/Co-operative 1, UUP 1.