“Positive” new figures show there are far more disabled MPs in the House of Commons than previously thought, and possibly as many as 40. Even after the addition of at least three new disabled MPs after July’s general election – Labour’s […]
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‘Truly shameful’ figures show more than 5,000 disabled people spent time sleeping on London’s streets last year
Watchdog backs government over secret assessment of ticket office closures
Watchdog gives Treasury go-ahead to keep budget equality impact secret
Watchdog warns DWP over repeated failure on freedom of information laws
DWP refuses to publish information from secret reviews into benefit-related deaths
Ministers ‘breach FoI laws’ by delaying release of fresh benefit deaths reviews
Revealed: DWP’s secret, ‘financially devastating’ proposals for benefits appeals
Secret DWP proposal to scrap ESA ‘substantial risk’ rules ‘would breach right to life’
Government hides information on death of Michael O’Sullivan
The government is refusing to release information that would reveal which ministers and civil servants decided how to respond to the death of a man who killed himself as a direct result of being found “fit for work”. Disability News Service […]