Part of 4. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 4:18 pm on 11 December 2018.
Yes, I'm very aware of that as an issue; it's been raised with me by a number of constituents as well. We are having ongoing discussions with various public service travel operators to see what can be done about that; often on a bus, for example, there's one wheelchair space, not two, and, if you are travelling with two people together, they often have to catch subsequent buses, and so on. So, I'm very much aware of that. It is part of our consultation, and it is something that the current economy Secretary and I have talked about a great deal. I will certainly be recommending in the new Government that we take forward action with our public services to ensure that people do have equal access. Often, people have more than one disabled person in their family, and more than one disabled child, and it is a big issue for them; it can be very expensive otherwise. So, it's certainly something on our radar.