{"id":15703,"date":"2013-06-12T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T09:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cf2c8ba8fff7d294c432875ecd72e968"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T09:13:10","slug":"statement-to-parliament-future-of-the-disabled-persons-transport-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=15703","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Future of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The government\u2019s review of non-departmental public bodies in 2010 recommended that the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (<abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr>) should be abolished as part of wider goals to improve efficiency, effectiveness, economy and accountability.<br \/>\nHaving considered the matter carefully and taken account of the consultation responses received, I am today (12 June 2013) announcing that I have decided not to proceed with abolition, but to retain <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr> as the department\u2019s expert advisory panel on accessibility issues relating to disabled people.<\/p>\n<p>A public consultation was held between 11 June and 14 September 2012, on whether <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr> should be abolished and, if so, on possible alternative arrangements. Following the consultation, I have concluded that abolition would not lead to any discernible improvement in economy and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have also concluded that there is scope for restructuring <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr> to ensure it is a more efficient and effective body. I am satisfied that the savings identified from such reforms would exceed earlier expectations. My officials will now work together with those from Cabinet Office on the restructuring of <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr>. As <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr> has the characteristics of a non-departmental body, it will continue to be subject to review every 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement will end a considerable period of uncertainty for the existing members of <abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr>, and I hope will be welcomed by the majority of respondents to the consultation who were in favour of its retention.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"related-documents\">Related documents<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/the-abolition-of-the-disabled-persons-transport-committee-dptac\">The abolition of the Disabled Persons Transport Committee (<abbr title=\"Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee\">DPTAC<\/abbr>) consultation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee will be retained to advise DfT on accessibility issues relating to disabled people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}