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Complaints made about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have rocketed by more than a fifth in just a year, official figures have shown. Government statistics show that the number of complaints about the department rose from 4,999 in the […]
The minister for disabled people has failed five times to say whether he was aware of research linking the “fitness for work” test with 590 suicides of disabled benefit claimants, as his department prepares to tighten the assessment even further. The […]
The minister for disabled people has refused three times to explain why his government failed to give evidence to the United Nations on its disability rights record, weeks after his party’s disability group expressed concern at the decision. The Conservative Disability […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has declined to welcome its own figures which show a huge increase in spending on the Access to Work disability employment scheme. The new figures show spending of more than £180 million in 2022-23, […]
Disabled campaigners have asked why the government is spending money on a “potentially damaging” and “completely misguided” awareness-raising campaign that aims to stop non-disabled people making “assumptions” about people’s impairments. One of the disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) that were backing the […]
A Conservative MP has told his own government that disabled people’s trust in the disability benefits assessment process is “severely lacking”. Elliot Colburn was introducing a debate on three parliamentary petitions that between them have been backed by tens of thousands […]
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tried to prevent its most controversial private sector contractor winning a five-year £338 million contract to provide disability benefit assessments, court documents suggest. Most of the successful bidders for five regional contracts to provide […]
More than half of government departments have ignored new legislation that was supposed to boost the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in their communications, a new report has revealed. The report shows how often each department offered a British Sign […]
Network Rail has been forced to admit that it has plans to build 17 inaccessible footbridges across England, Scotland and Wales. The plans have been described as “profoundly offensive” by one disabled campaigner, with another warning that the new bridges will […]
The minister for disabled people has launched a new “disability action plan” that he claims will “help transform disabled people’s everyday lives for the better”, but which includes no new spending commitments or promised legislation. Tom Pursglove said his draft Disability […]