Analysis of London Manifestos

We have looked at commitments that the 4 parties with London Assembly representation have made, that match our manifesto priorities for Deaf and Disabled Londoners.

We have analysed the London manifestos of the 4 parties that have representation in the London Assembly. We have looked at commitments they have made that match our manifesto priorities for Deaf and Disabled Londoners.

You can see information about all candidates for Mayor of London on the London Elects website.

 

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Conservatives

The Conservative manifesto did not mention:

  • Accessible housing or commitments to increase the supply of accessible housing.
  • Disablism in the Met Police or disability hate crime.
  • Co-production with Disabled people and DDPOs or engaging with DDPOs.
  • Making London the best place to study and work for Disabled people.
  • Tackling poverty among Disabled Londoners.

 

It did include the following commitments to improve transport for Disabled Londoners:

  • Reinstating the Freedom Pass and 60+ Oyster Card in peak morning hours.
  • Making pavements safer for those with vision or hearing impairments, by:
  • Removing or adapting floating bus stops and halt any plans for new ones.
  • Taking action against dockless bikes creating trip hazards.
  • Improving accessibility across the capital by setting up an online information platform for those who require assistance.
  • Increasing availability of public toilets on London’s transport network.

 

Labour

The Labour manifesto did not mention:

  • Accessible housing or commitments to increase the supply of accessible housing.
  • Disablism in the Met Police or disability hate crime.
  • Making London the best place to study and work for Disabled people.
  • Tackling poverty among Disabled Londoners.

 

It did include the following commitments:

Equality and Inclusion

  • Creating new forums for Disabled Londoners to engage with TfL, the London Fire Brigade and the Met Police to ensure our voices are heard in shaping London’s future.

 

Transport

  • Expanding step-free access to cover half of the Underground network by 2030.
  • Developing a plan to help neurodiverse passengers and Londoners living with dementia better navigate the TfL network.
  • Investing at least £3m a year from City Hall to provide more toilets on the TfL estate.

 

Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrat manifesto did not mention:

  • Accessible housing or commitments to increase the supply of accessible housing.
  • Disablism in the Met Police or disability hate crime.
  • Co-production with Disabled people and DDPOs or engaging with DDPOs.
  • Making London the best place to study and work for Disabled people.
  • Tackling poverty among Disabled Londoners.

 

It did include the following commitments to improve transport for Disabled Londoners:

  • Making transport more accessible and safer by making more stations step-free by 2030.
  • Keeping current travel concessions, including the 60+ card and the Freedom Pass, and looking to extend their hours back to the 24 hours a day.

 

Green Party

The Green Party manifesto made commitments including:

Transport

  • Upgrading the bus fleet to include space for more wheelchair users to travel together and designing an improved standard bus stop.
  • Speeding up step-free access across tube stations.
  • Providing public toilets at more bus and tube stations, including accessible toilets.
  • Restoring 24-hour free travel to holders of 60+ London Oyster photocards and Older Person’s Freedom Passes.
  • Supporting, maintaining and improving transport hire services for Disabled people such as Dial-a-Ride.
  • Bringing in stricter rules around pavement clutter, parking across dropped kerbs and parking spaces.

 

Housing

  • Making a strong economic case to the national government for additional billions in grants to use a council housing programme to ‘buy the supply’, helping councils to acquire more homes. Reserving a tenth of these funds for funding the right homes for the right people, including accessible homes for Disabled and older citizens.
  • Making sure councils secure more fully wheelchair-accessible homes, built to the highest standards.
  • Creating a register of all wheelchair-accessible social housing in London and lead coordination among local authorities.
  • Setting up a Cold Homes taskforce that will prioritise
  • Working with disabled people’s groups to review council processes and set clear standards for them to plan for and adjust to disabled people’s needs, including personal emergency evacuation plans.
  • Improve housing needs projections, so that councils make suitable provision for accessible and supported housing.
  • Increasing the 35% ‘affordable’ housing threshold to 50%. Making 10% of all units fully wheelchair-accessible and prescribing most of these units to be built in the social rented sector.

 

Policing and Crime

  • Ensuring diversity training with input from community reference groups representing Disabled people.
  • Supporting people wrongly arrested by investing in safe, healing-centred and racially literate spaces.
  • Make sure all police, TfL and GLA public service staff are trained to recognise hate crime (including disability hate crime) and to assist victims in reporting crimes to the police or third parties.

 

Employment

  • Eliminating pay gaps in all GLA organisations by 2026, including for gender, ethnicity, disability and LGBTIQA+. Extending the monitoring and publication of pay gaps to all organisations with which the GLA has contracts.
  • Collaborating with Disabled people to ensure GLA employment practices are inclusive and using City Hall procurement policies and schemes to support small businesses, including those led by Disabled people.
  • Providing support to ensure small businesses can optimise access for Disabled staff, suppliers and customers and have appropriate facilities in place and improve wellbeing.

 

Equality

  • Appointing a Disability Equality Champion and creating a new forum for London Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations to feed into policy development and decision-making year-round.
  • Investing long-term in community-based organisations that tackle inequality, poverty and discrimination faced by Deaf and Disabled people.

 

Please refer to the individual manifestos for further detail.

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