Maria Caulfield has celebrated new policies to help blind and visually impaired people which were rolled out this year.
The Lewes MP met guide dog and cane users in Parliament and vowed to continue working with the Guide Dogs charity to push for further reforms.
The celebration comes after changes this year including audio-visual announcements on buses and extra funding for tactile paving at railway stations.
The Conservative MP said: “I am glad of the progress that has been made for people with vision impairment, but there is still much more to be done.
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“I will continue to work with the Guide Dogs charity and I would like to thank them for a lovely event.”
Another change celebrated by Ms Caulfield was the reversal of controversial plans to close ticket offices at train stations.
Eleanor Briggs, head of policy at Guide Dogs, said that people with sight loss “still face barriers to living actively” and called on MPs to prioritise solutions to these problems.
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