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Who will speak up for disabled people now that DPTAC is facing the axe?

David Hunter
26 November 2010
David Hunter is a former accessible transport manager at the City of Edinburgh Council.
David Hunter is a former accessible transport manager at the City of Edinburgh Council.

 

As part of the Government’s bonfire of the quangos announced in October, the Disabled Persons’ Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) is to be abolished. It is therefore timely to look back at the work of this body that has made a real difference to public transport over its 23-year existence.

DPTAC’s principal statutory remit was to advise the secretary of state for transport, who had to “secure that at all times at least half of the committee consists of persons who are...

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