Annual Report 1999

Appendix C: DPTAC membership, as of 1st January 2000

Chair

Jane Wilmot OBE

Jane is the first woman to chair DPTAC and the first Chair with a sensory impairment - she is deaf. As Chair of DPTAC she is also an ex-officio member of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Jane is the Vice-Chair of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, a Vice President of Disability Alliance, a member of Hammersmith and Fulham Community Health Council and the Tourism for All Consortium.

Jane is also a Trustee of the City Parochial Foundation, the Hammersmith and Fulham Action for Disability, and Tripscope.

Members

Jean Ashcroft MBE

Jean has a mobility impairment which sometimes requires the use of a wheelchair. She has been a DPTAC member since 1992. Jean is a Public Policy Consultant for Arthritis Care (formerly Director of Public Policy and Campaigning). She is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Elderly and Disabled People (DIEL) and a Trustee of The Forum of Mobility Centres.

Peter Barker OBE

Peter is blind, and has been a DPTAC member since 1995.

Peter is the Manager of the JMU Access Partnership (Joint Mobility Unit of the RNIB/Guide Dogs for the Blind Association), a member of the Pedestrian Policy Group, the Access Advisory Panel of the Royal Opera House, and the Access Advisory Panel of the New Millennium Experience Company. Peter is also the trustee Director of Tripscope, the National Information Forum, and is a founder member of the National Register of Access Consultants.

Ed Bassford

Ed has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Ed is the Group Manager (Passenger Transport) at East Sussex County Council.

Jean Dunlop

Jean is a wheelchair user, and has been a DPTAC member since 1997. Jean was formerly Chair of the Strathclyde Forum on Disability.

Peter Field MBE

Peter is a wheelchair user, and has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Peter is Treasurer of the Countryside Access Group of the Disabled Drivers Association, a trustee to The National Federation of Shopmobility, and to RADAR. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of FAST (Foundation for the Advancement of Assistive Technology).

Rubina Hassanali

Rubina has a visual and a mobility impairment. She has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Rubina works for Westminster City Council and has a great deal of experience of transport and access issues.

Joe Hennessy OBE

Joe is a wheelchair user. He had previously sat as a DPTAC member between 1985 -1995, and was re-appointed in 1999.

Joe is a Governor of Motability, the National Vice-Chairman of the Disabled Drivers' Association, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Mobility for Disabled People, Vice-Chairman of emPower, and a member of Tripscope (the national travel information service for disabled people).

Tony Kennan

Tony has been a DPTAC member since 1993, and has wide experience in the bus industry. Tony is a trustee of the MS Society, and also a member of Tripscope.

Cllr Janet Kirk

Janet has a mobility impairment, and has been a DPTAC member since 1999. She is a Parish Councillor, and within the union of MSF (Manufacturing, Science and Finance) is Chair of the Regions Disability Employment Advisory Committee, and Vice-Chair of the MSF National Disability Employment Advisory Committee. Janet is also the co-Chair of the Labour Party's Disabled Members Group.

Valerie Lang MBE

Valerie has cerebral palsy, and has been a DPTAC member since 1995. Valerie is an honorary life member of Scope, a trustee of Mobility Choice, CARIS (Church Action and Response in Society) and HomeShare. She is also a member of the Independent Review Body in the Disability Benefits Directorate, and the Islington Deanery Synod.

Sir Peter Large CBE

Sir Peter is a wheelchair user, and a founder member of DPTAC. He was appointed in 1986. He is a member, and currently President, of the Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled, and Parliamentary Advisor of the Association of Disabled Professionals; he was former Chair of both these Groups.

Sir Peter is also a Governor of Motability, and a member of RADAR (the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation).

Grahame Lawson

Grahame has been a member of DPTAC since 1995.

Grahame is Head of Planning and Transportation for North Lanarkshire Council, and a member of the Scottish Society of Directors of Planning, Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland, and Chairman of SCOTS Working Party on Flooding.

Peter Lee

Peter has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Peter is the Managing Director of a bus and coach company based in north east England, is current Chairman (Northern Region) of the CPT (Confederation of Passenger Transport), as well as being on CPT's Council, Coach Commission and Section 1 (small operators) committees, and Chairman of the National Express Contractors Association.

Bert Massie CBE

Bert is a wheelchair user, and was appointed to DPTAC in 1986. Bert is the Chairman of the DRC (Disability Rights Commission), Vice-Chairman and trustee of Tripscope, and Deputy Vice-President (Europe) of Rehabilitation International.

Jenny Meadows

Jenny has been a member of DPTAC since 1995.

Jenny is the Director of the Community Transport Association.

Dorothy Rhodes

Dorothy has a walking impairment, and sometimes requires the use of a wheelchair. She has been a DPTAC member since 1992. She is the National President of Pensioners' Voice.

Cath Simpson

Cath is visually impaired, and co-ordinates Social Work and Technical Services for Glasgow City Council. Cath is also a member of the RNIB's Executive Council and therefore a trustee of the RNIB.

Carol Thomas

Carol has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Carol is the Senior Access Consultant of the JMU Access Partnership (Joint Mobility Unit of RNIB/Guide Dogs for the Blind Association), and runs the Welsh office of the JMU in Cardiff. Carol is a planner, a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a member of The Access Association, the Access Committee for Wales, and Disability Wales.

Nick Tyler

Nick has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Nick is the Senior Lecturer in Transport at University College London, where he promotes an innovative approach to research, design and the implementation of transport policies.

Richard West

Richard is deaf and is the first DPTAC member with a learning disability. He has been a DPTAC member since 1999. Richard works for CHANGE, an organisation for people with both a learning disability and a sensory impairment, and is a member of the GLAD (Greater London Action on Disability) Transport Group and People First Lambeth.

Published 11 December 2000

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