Damian Green

Benefits and Poverty

November 30, 2017 0

Damian Green caught exaggerating disability benefits spending in PMQs

The first secretary of state has been caught exaggerating the government’s spending on disability benefits while standing in for Theresa May at prime minister’s questions. Damian Green (pictured), who was work and pensions secretary until earlier this year, is already facing a Cabinet Office investigation into allegations of sexual impropriety. He was asked by

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Placard at protest saying: Coping with mental distress is hard work. We demand full PIP including mobility

March 16, 2017

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PIP investigation: MPs warn of ‘broken’ system and distressed claimants

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MPs from across the House of Commons have raised fresh concerns about the assessment process for the government’s new disability benefit. Work and pensions secretary Damian Green faced further questioning about the personal independence payment (PIP) system yesterday (Wednesday), following his decision to introduce new regulations that will make it more difficult for people

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Damian Green giving evidence to MSPs, while someone behind him wears a tee shirt promoting the film I, Daniel Blake

March 2, 2017

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Billions of pounds of PIP cuts ‘will put lives at risk’

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The announcement of billions of pounds of cuts to the government’s new disability benefit is a discriminatory attack on people with mental health problems, will push many of them further into poverty and isolation, and will put lives at risk, say disabled activists. Protests about the cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) have already

Benefits and Poverty

November 17, 2016

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Damian Green faces fresh accusations of misleading MPs over disability benefits

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The work and pensions secretary is facing accusations that he misled MPs about his government’s disability benefit reforms for the second time in a month. Damian Green was responding to an urgent question about last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the “bedroom tax” discriminates unlawfully against some disabled people. His Labour shadow, Debbie Abrahams,

Benefits and Poverty

November 10, 2016

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Green refuses three times to apologise to Scotland for harm of benefit reforms

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The work and pensions secretary Damian Green has refused three times to apologise or even acknowledge the distress and harm caused by his government’s welfare reforms and cuts, during an appearance before MSPs. Green became the first work and pensions secretary to appear before a Scottish parliamentary committee, when he gave evidence to the

Benefits and Poverty

November 3, 2016

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Ministers set to force work-related activity on everyone in ESA support group

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The Department for Work and Pensions is considering forcing all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take part in “mandatory” activity, its new green paper has revealed. The suggestion of compulsory activity is revealed in a single line of the 92-page work, health and disability green paper, published this week. Such

Benefits and Poverty

October 20, 2016

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Ministerial duo face questions after misleading MPs over PIP

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Two ministers have refused to apologise after they both misled MPs about the impact of the government’s new disability benefit on disabled people. In the space of just 20 minutes, work and pensions secretary Damian Green and minister for disabled people Penny Mordaunt both misled the House of Commons about how personal independence payment

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Conference audience watch Damian Green on stage

October 6, 2016

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Tory conference: PIP claimants will not be spared retests, DWP admits

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The government has confirmed that sick and disabled people who will soon be spared reassessments for out-of-work benefits will still face repeated testing for personal independence payment (PIP). Work and pensions secretary Damian Green’s one key announcement during this week’s party conference in Birmingham was that people with “the most severe lifetime conditions” would

Politics

June 19, 2015

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Tory MPs’ ‘cynical and shabby’ behaviour over ‘cut and paste’ letters

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Conservative MPs have been accused of “horribly cynical, shabby” behaviour after sending out identical “template” letters explaining why they would not back a community inclusion bill named after a young disabled man who drowned in an NHS unit. Campaigners had approached MPs of all parties to ask if they could back efforts to introduce

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