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As far as Albion concessions are concerned ... throw in a debate about student concessions and young people more generally ... and you run into the apparent fact that the stadium is well on course to sell out anyway. Come back to this if crowds drop to 17,000 - and the arguments would be...

The Club doesn't actually offer discounts to people of pensionable age. They offer discounts to people aged 65 or over. This isn't quite the same thing. In fact, they don't have a choice, following a European Court ruling a few years ago that banned commercial organisations from...

The market research that the Train Operators have done over the years proves to their satisfaction that ALL of the railcard offers that they operate - for 16-25 year olds, families & friends, seniors, disabled people, and the south-east network card - bring commercial benefits to the railway...

Off-peak rail fares for disabled people are cheaper - one-third off - if the passenger is prepared to buy the railcard. But that's a commercial discount, offered by the train companies, not a state-funded benefit.

Yes. One-third off, in all areas, except the most expensive.

I'm not arguing with this at all. The point I was making was in response to this post by albion534:- The fact of the matter is that a whole range of human rights and disabled activists ARE arguing that the reduced earnings capacity of disabled people generally IS a direct result of entrenched...

I don't want to drag up all the arguments that we had a year ago, but it might be appropriate to report that the "consultations" with Level Playing Field (aka the National Association of Disabled Supporters) didn't result in a very satisfactory outcome at the time. The NADS representative that...

I hope the disabled supporters' facilities eventually turn out to be as great as has been promised. In the first season, they weren't. That's the reason the Football Foundation withheld its grant to the stadium project, until part way through the season.

On average, the earnings capacity of disabled people is very significantly lower than than able-bodied people.

That only applied to wheelchair users, not disabled supporters generally, and was by way of recognising that the Club hadn't got the facilities right when the stadium opened. We are promised that things will be different when the stadium expansion has happened.

There are all sorts of issues about the extra costs / lower earnings incurred by people with disabilities and how these should be addressed - through the taxation system, through the benefits system, through more detailed individual assessments, etc. But I don't think anyone is now arguing...

The Albion withdrew concessionary prices for disabled supporters when we moved into the Amex.