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UN day of disabled people: Newton silent on international day… again

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Politics

UN day of disabled people: Newton silent on international day… again
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The minister for disabled people has been unable to explain why she failed to make any public statement to support disabled people’s battle for rights on the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). It is the second year in […]

UN day of disabled people: De Cordova close to tears over Commons access failure

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Politics

UN day of disabled people: De Cordova close to tears over Commons access failure
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A disabled shadow minister told activists she was on the verge of tears after House of Commons authorities provided them with an inaccessible meeting room for an event being held to celebrate the UN’s international day of disabled people. Marsha de […]

UN day of disabled people: Temporary election access fund ‘must be just a first step’

By John Pring on 6th December 2018 Category: Politics

UN day of disabled people: Temporary election access fund ‘must be just a first step’
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The government has finally launched a new temporary fund that will support disabled candidates who want to stand for elected office, but only for the next 15 months. The Government Equalities Office (GEO) said the EnAble “interim” fund would provide £250,000 […]

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Politics

McVey flees DWP without answering key questions on WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
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Esther McVey has quit as work and pensions secretary without answering questions she was asked by MPs four months ago about whether her department covered up links between its hated fitness for work test and the deaths of benefit claimants. McVey […]

UN poverty report: Newton refuses to apologise for misleading MPs about report

By John Pring on 22nd November 2018 Category: Politics

UN poverty report: Newton refuses to apologise for misleading MPs about report
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The minister for disabled people is refusing to apologise to MPs for misleading them about a report by a UN human rights expert on the UK’s record on causing and addressing extreme poverty. Professor Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on […]

MPs hear of DWP’s ‘unacceptable’ failure to provide accessible papers to shadow minister

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Politics

MPs hear of DWP’s ‘unacceptable’ failure to provide accessible papers to shadow minister
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Work and pensions ministers have received a humiliating dressing-down from the Commons speaker after their “unacceptable” failure to provide an accessible version of vital new universal credit papers to a disabled shadow minister. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had […]

Suicide prevention minister could be ‘legally compromised’ over silence on ESA risk

By John Pring on 25th October 2018 Category: Politics

Suicide prevention minister could be ‘legally compromised’ over silence on ESA risk
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Disabled activists say the new “minister for suicide prevention” could leave herself “legally compromised” by her continuing failure to promise to warn local agencies that claimants of out-of-work disability benefits face a higher risk of taking their own lives. Jackie Doyle-Price […]

New ‘suicide prevention’ minister evades questions on ESA suicide stats

By John Pring on 18th October 2018 Category: Politics

New ‘suicide prevention’ minister evades questions on ESA suicide stats
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The new “minister for suicide prevention” has refused to say if she will alert agencies across the country to NHS figures that show the high risk of suicide faced by claimants of out-of-work disability benefits. Last week, mental health minister Jackie […]

Tory conference: Disability charities face questions over Conservative links

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Disability charities face questions over Conservative links
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Two disability charities are facing questions over their close links to the Conservative party, after they failed to challenge the minister for disabled people about government policies at a conference fringe event. Both Bipolar UK and the Epilepsy Society have close […]

Tory conference: Newton ‘breaches ministerial code’ while dodging questions

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Politics

Tory conference: Newton ‘breaches ministerial code’ while dodging questions
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The minister for disabled people appears to have breached the ministerial code of conduct, after refusing to answer questions at her party’s annual conference and suggesting that civil servants could answer them for her instead. Sarah Newton’s office had failed to […]

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