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Among those backing it was Ruth Richardson, a former finance minister for the centre-right National Party, who told the select committee that the proposed legislation was "a bill of consequence whose time has come".

A report by parliament's cross-party transport select committee found "systematic" failings across all public transport and says "too great a burden is placed on individual disabled people" to hold operators and authorities to account.

Work and pensions select committee chair Debbie Abrahams, a Labour MP, said there were "more compassionate" ways to balance the books "rather than on the back of sick and disabled people".

Schiff previously served in the House, where he helped lead the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.

In January Ms Pritchard had a bruising experience at the hands of two parliamentary select committees.