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The failure of the membership of the House of Lords to reflect the lived experience of disabled people is “infecting” the process of making policy, according to a disabled peer. Lord [Kevin] Shinkwin, a Conservative peer, told fellow members of the […]
A House of Lords committee has been told how the “huge barrier” created by social care charges is forcing disabled people into poverty. Andy McCabe, who himself uses council-funded support, told the adult social care committee that the charges being demanded […]
A disabled peer has appealed to disabled people and their organisations to pressure MPs to accept changes to the government’s health and care bill that offer “a better, fairer” system of care charges. Baroness [Jane] Campbell spoke out after she warned […]
Two disabled peers have warned the government that disabled people living in high-rise flats will again be forgotten – five years on from the Grenfell disaster – if its building safety bill fails to make their need for protection explicitly clear. […]
Five disabled peers have explained why they helped defeat government plans that would have eroded the right to protest. The five crossbench and Liberal Democrat peers were among those members of the House of Lords who delivered a series of defeats […]
The chances of a bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide being passed by the House of Lords appear to be in the balance after nearly eight hours of debate among peers. The organisation Dignity in Dying, which leads the campaign […]
Disabled people have called on MPs and peers to focus their efforts on pushing for a right to live independently, and not a right to die, as the House of Lords prepares to debate a “dangerous” and “incoherent” bill that would […]
A cross-party House of Lords committee has criticised the government for its “objectionable” failure to bring into force key anti-discrimination measures that became law more than a decade ago. The Lords liaison committee said ministers had also failed to use their […]
The prime minister has refused to criticise four Conservative peers who made discriminatory and disablist remarks about disabled peers working in the House of Lords. Boris Johnson’s refusal to speak out came in response to a disabled constituent who wrote to […]
The minister for disabled people appears to be condoning the behaviour of four Conservative peers who aimed discriminatory and disablist comments at disabled members of the House of Lords. The Conservative party has also refused to take any action over the […]