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Campaigners have told the information commissioner of their “deep concern” over his decision to allow the Treasury to hide information that would show how last year’s budget was set to impact disabled people and other equality groups. Women’s Budget Group, Runnymede […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally admitted that nearly all its high-profile websites were rated as being inaccessible to many disabled people and potentially breaking the law. It has taken more than a year – and intervention from […]
The information commissioner has told the Treasury it can continue to hide information that would show how measures in a controversial spring budget were predicted to affect disabled people and other groups protected by the Equality Act. Disability News Service (DNS) […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been warned by the information commissioner for “systemically failing to comply with the law” over how it has dealt with requests for information on disability benefits, universal credit and claimant deaths. The Information […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has backed down in its fight to hide recommendations made in 22 secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants. Ministers had been told by the information commissioner to release the recommendations to Disability […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unlawfully prevented the release of secret reports into the deaths of at least 20 benefit claimants, the information commissioner has ruled. The commissioner, John Edwards, has found that DWP breached the Freedom of Information […]
The information commissioner has ruled against efforts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to brand Disability News Service “vexatious” for trying to find out how many disabled people are expected to lose out in the move to universal credit. […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has repeatedly breached data protection regulations by failing to provide benefit claimants and others – including Disability News Service (DNS) – with the information it holds about them. The huge backlog dates back months […]
The government has used a freedom of information loophole to hide evidence that would show if a former senior civil servant – later arrested over two unconnected rape allegations – helped block laws that would have protected disabled people from sex […]
A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains the names of all 36 residents […]