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Conservative ministers prevented research that showed disabled people on out-of-work benefits were subject to high levels of stress, debt and isolation from being included in a controversial policy paper that called for cuts to spending on those benefits. The research had […]
Conservative ministers decided to hide a report that exposed the flaws of the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system, just five days before they published proposals to replace PIP cash payments with vouchers or one-off grants, ministerial emails have revealed. Disability […]
The elections watchdog has criticised political parties that failed to produce their general election manifestos in accessible formats. The Electoral Commission has also highlighted how disabled candidates were still not able to secure government funding to support them with their access […]
Disabled people have reacted with alarm to “stigmatising”, “damaging” and “inaccurate” comments about mental health and autism by Kemi Badenoch, the right-wing Conservative MP who could soon be the next leader of her party. The comments were made in a pamphlet […]
Research suppressed by the last government exposed how the “degrading” personal independence payment (PIP) system and its dishonest and unfair assessments left disabled people “broken”, “numb” and “fuming”. The research, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), examined the […]
The government has refused to clarify comments by the prime minister which suggested that all claimants of long-term sickness benefits will be expected to look for work under Labour’s social security reforms. The refusal came as Mims Davies, the last Conservative […]
All four of the candidates to be the next Conservative leader have ignored disabled people in their pitches to party members. None of the quartet – Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, and Tom Tugendhat – discussed how they would address […]
Labour’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed its latest test on transparency after appealing against a regulator’s decision that it should release vital information from secret reports into the deaths of universal credit claimants. The information will show how […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to continue with an appeal against a watchdog’s decision that it should release vital information about plans to scrap the work capability assessment (WCA). Government lawyers are set to argue in the […]
The Cabinet Office has refused to release information that would confirm how little the last government was planning to spend on its much-criticised short-term plan that it claimed would improve disabled people’s lives. The plan, which contained 32 actions across 14 […]