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The Conservative party is refusing to say who has been appointed to lead a “landmark” review of disability benefits or to provide any details of how they will engage with disabled people, more than three weeks after it was launched. Shadow […]
The Conservative party is refusing to provide any details of its review of disability benefits, including who is carrying it out, and what attempts it will make to engage with disabled people. Despite repeated requests from Disability News Service (DNS), the […]
The Conservatives will use a new review of disability benefits to justify cuts to spending on social security of even more than the £23 billion a year they have already announced, their work and pensions spokesperson announced this week. In a […]
Kemi Badenoch and her Conservative party are being investigated by the statistics watchdog for repeatedly making misleading statements about social security spending, while they are also facing a possible examination into a second set of false claims. Members of the shadow […]
Disabled people’s organisations have branded Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest proposals to slash spending on disabled people’s support as “nonsense”, “harmful”, and a recipe for hardship and poverty. In their latest assault on social security spending, the Conservatives misleadingly claimed the […]
The government is to push ahead with its delayed plans to force large employers to report on the size of their disability pay gap. The plans were first announced in the king’s speech in July 2024, and a consultation was held […]
A tribunal has ordered the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release a report that describes the impact of its errors on disabled benefit claimants, following a three-year fight to keep the document secret. The information rights tribunal has concluded […]
New official figures – hidden by government and opposition parties – have exposed months of lies by politicians and the media about “spiralling” spending on social security and the need to cut benefits. The updated statistics from the Office for Budget […]
A trio of leading Tories have used misleading and offensive statements at their annual conference in Manchester to scapegoat disabled people who rely on support from the benefits system and whip up hostility towards them. The Conservative party made it clear […]
The Green Party is set to continue to contrast its policy approach on disability with other political parties by supporting disabled people who rely on benefits and have already experienced years of austerity cuts. The newly-elected leader of the Green Party […]