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Disability: EU Law

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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 133029, tabled on 30 December 2020

Question

Marion Fellows
Scottish National Party
Motherwell and Wishaw
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will bring forward legislative proposals to enshrine the European Accessibility Act into UK law.

Answer

Paul Scully
Conservative
Sutton and Cheam
Commons

Answered on

11 January 2021

The UK has left the EU, and as the Transition Period ended on 31 December 2020 the UK will not be required to transpose the EAA into UK law.

The UK already has robust legislation on accessibility through the protections covered by the Equality Act 2006, Equality Act 2010, and equivalent legislation in Northern Ireland. The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination on grounds of disability and imposes a duty on providers of goods and services to make reasonable adjustments to prevent this.

The Government will consider how further to improve or enhance accessibility through domestic legislation, and provide real benefit to citizens with disabilities.

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