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

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

Mordaunt misleads MPs over Tory disability employment gap target

By John Pring on 1st December 2016 Category: Employment

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 29th September 2016 Category: Employment

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 […]

Crabb’s mixed signals on fresh disability benefit cuts

By John Pring on 12th May 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

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 […]

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

By John Pring on 12th May 2016 Category: Employment

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 […]

New parliament sees number of disabled MPs plunge

By John Pring on 15th May 2015 Category: Politics

New parliament sees number of disabled MPs plunge
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The Conservative election victory appears to have delivered a heavy blow to long-term efforts to ensure greater representation of disabled people in parliament. Along with the retirement of disabled Labour MPs David Blunkett and Anne McGuire, there was defeat at the […]

COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS

By John Pring on 8th May 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS
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An overall majority for the Conservatives, three party leaders quitting, David Cameron back in Downing Street, and a landslide for the SNP in Scotland. The response from many disabled people to the result of yesterday’s general election – once the scale […]

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