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Coronavirus: Concern over government’s diabetes advice to Commons Speaker

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Politics

Coronavirus: Concern over government’s diabetes advice to Commons Speaker
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Serious concerns have emerged over advice being given by Public Health England (PHE) to people with long-term health conditions after the Commons Speaker, who has diabetes, insisted he had been told he can continue to work in the Houses of Parliament. […]

Coronavirus: Government ‘acting recklessly’ by forcing disabled MPs back to parliament

By John Pring on 28th May 2020 Category: Politics

Coronavirus: Government ‘acting recklessly’ by forcing disabled MPs back to parliament
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The government has been accused of “acting recklessly” by trying to force MPs who are disabled or have long-term health conditions to return to parliament next week, while the country is still in the grip of the pandemic. At least three […]

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 […]

Commons civil servants block DNS over DWP benefit deaths cover-up

By John Pring on 16th May 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Commons civil servants block DNS over DWP benefit deaths cover-up
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House of Commons civil servants have blocked attempts to confirm that an influential MP is opposing efforts to highlight a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) cover-up of deaths linked to its social security reforms. Disability News Service (DNS) has been […]

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate

By John Pring on 7th February 2019 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Newton forced to apologise after misleading MPs in WOW debate
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The minister for disabled people has been forced to apologise to MPs after Disability News Service (DNS) caught her misleading MPs about support for disabled people for the fourth time in less than a year. The misleading comments by Sarah Newton […]

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 […]

MPs help WOW win fight for second Commons debate

By John Pring on 4th October 2018 Category: Politics

MPs help WOW win fight for second Commons debate
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Campaigners have won their fight to persuade MPs to hold a second debate in the House of Commons on the need for the government to assess the overall damage caused to disabled people by years of austerity cuts. The announcement that […]

Autistic MP calls for change in equality laws to make parliament less hostile

By John Pring on 13th September 2018 Category: Politics

Autistic MP calls for change in equality laws to make parliament less hostile
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An autistic MP who has only been able to make two speeches in the main Commons chamber since being elected is calling for a change in equality laws to force the authorities to make parliament a more accessible place to work. […]

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told

By John Pring on 23rd November 2017 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Assessment regime causes disabled women ‘terrifying insecurity’, MPs are told
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A grassroots group has warned MPs that the “terrifying insecurity” caused by the government’s regime of disability benefit assessments is driving disabled women to destitution, and even “hastening their deaths”. WinVisible has submitted evidence to the Commons work and pensions select […]

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

By John Pring on 12th October 2017 Category: Politics

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again
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The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after she claimed that the UK had “volunteered” to take part in a public UN examination which concluded that her government’s disability policies had caused a “human catastrophe”. Penny Mordaunt was responding […]

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