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The government has refused to say whether the disability minister was told that a member of the steering group reviewing personal independence payment (PIP) was about to publish a report calling for spending on disability benefits for children to be slashed. […]
The disability minister has supported his government’s “unprincipled” decision to slash accessible housing targets set by the last Conservative government. Under plans put forward by Tory ministers, 100 per cent of homes would have had to be built to the M4(2)* […]
The minister leading a government review of personal independence payment (PIP) has refused four times to rule out cuts to spending, but he has promised no disabled person will be forced to accept products or services instead of cash payments. In […]
The disability minister has performed a rapid U-turn and agreed to do more to involve disabled people in producing his cross-government disability strategy, but his efforts have still been described as “back to front and feeble”. Sir Stephen Timms, the minister […]
The social security minister has still yet to decide whether secret reviews into deaths linked to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) can be released to grieving relatives, a year after he asked civil servants to examine the issue. It […]
The BBC has failed to explain why the host of its flagship current affairs programme Question Time has repeatedly pushed the idea that social security spending must be cut, while ignoring official figures that debunk claims it is “spiralling”. It is […]
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment (PIP), which it said would only increase pressure on other services. The warning came in a letter from […]
Some of disabled people’s fears appear to have been confirmed late last night as the government released draft recommendations from its review of personal independence payment (PIP) which suggest ministers are planning cuts to some cash payments. The document provides no […]
MPs have failed to question a minister on the continuing failure to introduce a legal duty for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to “safeguard” people who receive state benefits. The evidence session was reviewing progress by the department since […]
The Labour government is set to fail again in a key promise on co-production of disability policy, after revealing how it will only ask disabled people for their views on a key strategy after it has been drafted. In July 2025, […]