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New Commons chamber will include frontbench wheelchair spaces for first time

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Politics

New Commons chamber will include frontbench wheelchair spaces for first time
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New designs for a temporary House of Commons chamber will allow wheelchair-users who become ministers or shadow ministers to address fellow MPs from behind the historic despatch boxes for the first time. Disability News Service (DNS) has been told that the […]

DWP in dirty tricks row after abusive comments about disabled ex-MP

By John Pring on 22nd May 2015 Category: Politics

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is mired in a dirty tricks row after an anonymous comment that mirrored tabloid scrounger rhetoric – and attacked a disabled former Labour MP – was sent from a computer just yards from its […]

One in five benefit-related deaths involved sanctions, admits DWP

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

One in five benefit-related deaths involved sanctions, admits DWP
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that 10 of the 49 benefit claimants whose deaths were subject to secret reviews had had their payments sanctioned. The admission came in a response to a freedom of information request submitted […]

New parliament sees number of disabled MPs plunge

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Politics

New parliament sees number of disabled MPs plunge
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The Conservative election victory appears to have delivered a heavy blow to long-term efforts to ensure greater representation of disabled people in parliament. Along with the retirement of disabled Labour MPs David Blunkett and Anne McGuire, there was defeat at the […]

Dame Anne’s warning to disabled people: ‘Be afraid, be very afraid’

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Politics

Dame Anne’s warning to disabled people: ‘Be afraid, be very afraid’
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A disabled Labour MP who lost her seat in last week’s general election has warned disabled people to “be very afraid” about the prospect of five years of a Conservative-only government. Dame Anne Begg had won the marginal Aberdeen South seat […]

COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS

By John Pring on 8th May 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS
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An overall majority for the Conservatives, three party leaders quitting, David Cameron back in Downing Street, and a landslide for the SNP in Scotland. The response from many disabled people to the result of yesterday’s general election – once the scale […]

MPs want new benefit deaths watchdog

By John Pring on 27th March 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

MPs want new benefit deaths watchdog
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MPs have called on the government to set up a new independent body – modelled on the police complaints watchdog – to investigate the deaths of benefit claimants. The recommendation for a new organisation similar to the Independent Police Complaints Commission […]

IDS breaks pledge on PIP waiting-times, as tens of thousands still queue for months

By John Pring on 30th January 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive, Politics

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Government ministers have broken their high-profile promise to slash all waiting-times for the new disability benefit to less than four months. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refused to comment yesterday (Thursday) on the broken promise that – by the […]

Access to Work crisis: Scheme must improve, say MPs

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Employment, News Archive, Politics

Access to Work crisis: Scheme must improve, say MPs
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The Access to Work (AtW) scheme is only helping a minority of the disabled people it should be supporting in the workplace, according to a committee of MPs. The work and pensions select committee report also warns that a new rule […]

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms

By John Pring on 31st October 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, News Archive

Access to Work crisis: Minister apologises for bungled reforms
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The minister for disabled people has apologised to MPs for the government’s botched reforms to a vital employment support programme for disabled people. Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was told by MPs that the changes to Access to […]

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