HC Deb 19 March 1981 vol 1 c441

Mr. Dafydd Wigley, supported by Mr. Jack Ashley, Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones, Mr. Alfred Dubs, Mr. Bob Dunn, Mr. Clement Freud, Mr. John Hannam, Mr. John Heddle, Mr. Alfred Morris, Sir David Price, Mr. D. E. Thomas, and Mr. Gordon Wilson presented Bill to impose on highway authorities and other persons executing or proposing to execute works on highways a duty to have regard to the needs of disabled persons; to increase the penalty for certain offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 where those offences are committed by persons who improperly seek to avail themselves of certain parking facilities provided for disabled persons by orders under that Act; to impose a duty on planning authorities to draw the attention of persons to whom they grant planning permission to certain statutory and other provisions relating to access for disabled persons to buildings and other premises used by the public; to make further provision for the display of signs giving information as to such access; to require the Secretary of State to lay before Parliament a report as to proposals for ensuring or facilitating the improvement of means of access to such buildings and premises; and for connected purposes: And the same was read the First' time; and ordered to be read a Second time tomorrow and to be printed [Bill 97].