Penny Mordaunt

Employment

Philip Connolly speaking at a conference

November 30, 2017 0

Industrial strategy is ‘not fit for purpose’ due to ‘missing chapter’

The government’s new Industrial Strategy is “not fit for purpose” and has a “missing chapter” because of its failure to address the needs of disabled people, say campaigners. The strategy, published as a white paper on Monday (27 November), aims to set out the government’s “long-term vision for how Britain can build on its

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Sarah Newton speaking in the House of Commons

November 16, 2017 0

New minister for disabled people criticised by her local DPO over voting record

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The new minister for disabled people is facing criticism over her voting record on disability issues from a user-led organisation that provides support in her own constituency. The Cornish MP Sarah Newton was appointed as the new minister late last week as a replacement for Penny Mordaunt, who has been promoted to international development

Benefits and Poverty

November 16, 2017 0

Frustration over DWP’s response to PIP safety legal ruling

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that – despite a legal ruling – it can only pay disability benefit claimants a few months-worth of backdated payments, even if they have been missing out on the correct amount for years. Penny Mordaunt, the minister for disabled people, announced earlier this month that

Benefits and Poverty

November 9, 2017 0

Concern over government’s four-year delay on PIP ‘safety’

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Campaigners have asked why it took the government four years – and a tribunal judgement – to ensure that eligibility for a disability benefit takes proper account of whether a disabled person can carry out certain activities safely. Penny Mordaunt, the minister for disabled people, told MPs this week that as many as 10,000

Benefits and Poverty

October 26, 2017 0

PIP investigation: Assessment complaints rise by 880 per cent… in just one year

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Complaints about the personal independence payment (PIP) assessment process rose by nearly 900 per cent last year – from 142 to 1,391 – apparently corroborating the results of a year-long Disability News Service investigation. The Department for Work and Pensions figures also show that the number of complaints about PIP assessments that were upheld

Benefits and Poverty

October 26, 2017 0

DWP agrees to test new approach in latest sign of softer approach to sanctions

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Ministers are to test a new approach to dealing with claimants who breach strict benefit conditions for the first time, in the latest sign that the government is finally listening to calls to soften its much-criticised sanctions regime. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has agreed to trial handing out warnings instead of

Human Rights

Penny Mordaunt speaking in the House of Commons

October 19, 2017 0

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

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The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning UN report on her government’s disability rights record, arguing that the rest of the world should instead be learning from the UK’s policies. Penny Mordaunt was speaking weeks after the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities said the government’s social protection policies

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October 12, 2017 0

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

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The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after she claimed that the UK had “volunteered” to take part in a public UN examination which concluded that her government’s disability policies had caused a “human catastrophe”. Penny Mordaunt was responding to Labour’s new shadow minister for disabled people, Marsha de Cordova, who told

Benefits and Poverty

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October 5, 2017 0

Tory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’

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Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer need to face repeated assessments of their capability for work are “meaningless” because the government has refused to say which people will be affected, say campaigners. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced last week, on the eve of the Conservative

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Marsha de Cordova, smiling, in front of a river, wearing a Labour rosette and holding a railing

September 28, 2017 0

Labour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights

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A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head in the sand” over the damage caused by years of cuts that have been “targeted” on disabled people. Marsha de Cordova, one of two newly-elected disabled Labour MPs, says she believes the government would never have targeted other groups in the way it

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