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Disabled campaigners welcome mayor’s ‘significant improvements’ to clean air scheme

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Transport

Disabled campaigners welcome mayor’s ‘significant improvements’ to clean air scheme
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Disabled campaigners have won significant concessions from London’s mayor after they warned that plans to widen the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital would discriminate against tens of thousands of disabled Londoners. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) had warned that the expansion of […]

Mayor’s ‘ultra low emission zone’ plans ‘will impact tens of thousands of disabled people’

By John Pring on 30th June 2022 Category: Transport

Mayor’s ‘ultra low emission zone’ plans ‘will impact tens of thousands of disabled people’
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Plans to widen the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) in the capital will discriminate against tens of thousands of disabled Londoners and cause significant harm to many of them, a senior representative of the mayor of London has been told. Disabled people’s […]

DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living

By John Pring on 5th May 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DPO to call for London’s mayor to do more for disabled people on cost-of-living
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A pan-London disabled people’s organisation (DPO) is to call on the capital’s mayor to do more to support disabled Londoners hit by the unfolding cost-of-living crisis. Inclusion London said this week that food and energy bills have been rising sharply over […]

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