Penny Mordaunt

Benefits and Poverty

June 29, 2017 0

Ministers’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech

Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for new social security legislation were dropped from last week’s Queen’s speech. Disability News Service reported last week how a Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability assessment (WCA) through new legislation appeared to have been abandoned when it failed to appear in

Benefits and Poverty

June 22, 2017 0

Queen’s speech: Government appears to dump Mordaunt’s WCA election promise

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A Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability assessment (WCA) through new legislation appears to have been abandoned, with the Queen’s speech containing no mention of any new social security bill. The speech contains brief details of all planned legislation over the next two years – rather than the usual 12 months –

Human Rights

June 4, 2017 0

COMMENT: If you value disabled people’s rights, and plan to vote Tory on Thursday, please read this…

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Penny Mordaunt, the minister for disabled people, told last week’s disability hustings event in London that no group experienced as much discrimination – including at the hands of the state – as disabled people. So what has her government done to address that discrimination since the 2015 election? The stories covered by Disability News

Benefits and Poverty

Penny Mordaunt, Baroness Brinton and Kate Green sitting together in front of a stage

June 1, 2017 0

Election 2017: Mordaunt dodges questions over ‘misleading’ WCA pledge

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The Conservatives have refused to comment on an apparently misleading public pledge by the minister for disabled people that another Tory government would “dismantle” the work capability assessment. Penny Mordaunt was speaking at a disability hustings event in Westminster that was organised by the Disability Charities Consortium, the Disability Benefits Consortium and the Care

Independent Living

Penny Mordaunt speaking in the House of Commons

June 1, 2017 0

Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation

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The minister for disabled people has failed to oppose the idea of forcing disabled people into institutions against their will. Penny Mordaunt was asked what she would do to protect disabled people from “forced institutionalisation” and whether she opposed it, as part of a series of questions put to her by the campaigning website

Benefits and Poverty

The Queen talks to a bearded man in a wheelchair, with Motability vehicles behind them

April 27, 2017

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Minister announces new PIP flexibility on Motability… but no sign of scheme extension

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Disabled people hit by the government’s benefit reassessment programme will be able to keep their Motability vehicles for up to six months while they appeal against losing their eligibility, thanks to a new series of measures. The changes will help former claimants of disability living allowance (DLA) who lose their eligibility for the higher

Benefits and Poverty

Penny Mordaunt giving evidence to the work and pensions committee

April 6, 2017 1

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

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The minister for disabled people has been accused of making “false promises” that she would reduce the living costs of people facing cuts of nearly £30 a week to their out-of-work disability benefits. From this week, new employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) will receive about

Benefits and Poverty

March 9, 2017

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Disabled peer says Mordaunt was ‘spinning like crazy’ over PIP cuts

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A disabled peer has accused the minister for disabled people of “spinning like crazy” in an attempt to defend the government’s latest cuts to benefits for people with mental health conditions. Baroness [Jane] Campbell says she and five other peers met with Penny Mordaunt (pictured) last week about the government’s amendments to personal independence

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