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Benefits and Poverty

January 11, 2018 0

MPs refuse to explain failure to quiz minister on ESA suicide stats

Nine MPs on a Commons committee are refusing to explain why they failed to ask the minister for disabled people about shocking figures that suggest attempted suicides among people claiming out-of-work disability benefits doubled between 2007 and 2014. The work and pensions select committee was passed the figures by Disability News Service (DNS) a

Employment

Frank Field speaking at a session of the work and pensions committee

September 21, 2017 0

Labour MP told to quit influential post after ‘offensive’ minimum wage call

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Disabled activists have called for a Labour MP to resign as chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, after he called for employers to be allowed to pay some disabled people less than the minimum wage. Frank Field (pictured) made the call in a new collection of essays on employment and disabled

Benefits and Poverty

August 10, 2017 0

Labour MP to push for action on widespread claims of PIP assessment lies

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A Labour MP is to push for a Commons debate on evidence of widespread dishonesty among healthcare professionals who assess disabled people for the government’s new personal independence payment (PIP). Disability News Service (DNS) has been investigating allegations that healthcare professionals working for government contractors Atos and Capita have been lying in their assessment

Benefits and Poverty

Penny Mordaunt giving evidence to the work and pensions committee

April 6, 2017 1

Exposed: Mordaunt’s ‘false promises’ on WRAG cut mitigation

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The minister for disabled people has been accused of making “false promises” that she would reduce the living costs of people facing cuts of nearly £30 a week to their out-of-work disability benefits. From this week, new employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) will receive about

Employment

Outside view of Portcullis House, Westminster

December 8, 2016

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Disabled people face institutional disablism from employers, says damning report

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Disabled people are facing “institutional disablism” at the hands of both public and private sector employers, according to a new parliamentary report that examines how the government can meet its pledge to halve the disability employment gap. The report by the all-party parliamentary group on disability (APPGD) – which has cross-party support – concludes

Benefits and Poverty

Outside view of the Houses of Parliament

December 1, 2016

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Mordaunt ‘working on urgent plans to reduce living costs’ ahead of WRAG cuts

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The minister for disabled people is working on urgent plans to cut the living costs faced by disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits, she has told MPs. Penny Mordaunt was responding to warnings of the “human cost” of “bizarre” government plans to cut more than £1 billion from disabled benefit claimants over the four

Employment

Penny Mordauny giving evidence to a parliamentary committee

December 1, 2016

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Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target

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The minister for disabled people misled a Commons committee about the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap… less than two minutes after she began giving evidence. Penny Mordaunt (pictured) began speaking to the work and pensions select committee at 4.18pm on Monday by confirming her name and ministerial duties, but by 4.20pm

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The five panellists sitting behind a long table

September 29, 2016

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Labour conference: Young campaigner calls for fellow workers to spread the word

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A young campaigner has called on other disabled people to share their experiences of successful employment in order to help narrow the disability employment gap. Lauren Pitt told a fringe meeting at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool that she wanted to see disabled people use social media to share their good experiences in the

Benefits and Poverty

Stephen Crabb giving evidence to a Commons committee

May 12, 2016

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Crabb’s mixed signals on fresh disability benefit cuts

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The new work and pensions secretary has sent out mixed signals on whether he wants to make further cuts to spending on disability benefits. Stephen Crabb, who was appointed after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith in March, was giving evidence for the first time to the Commons work and pensions select committee yesterday

Employment

May 12, 2016

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Crabb hints at lengthy delays to manifesto pledge on disability jobs gap

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The new work and pensions secretary has suggested the government’s pledge to halve the disability employment gap will face lengthy delays, after he said he wanted to spend a “few years” testing how to achieve the target. Stephen Crabb, who was appointed after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith in March, was giving evidence

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