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Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall was on the verge of lying to MPs yesterday as she argued with a disabled MP about misleading comments she made in parliament on disability benefit cuts.
New analysis shows a pool of just 28 MPs who have shown themselves to be the strongest allies to disabled people when voting ...
New post-Grenfell regulations designed to ensure disabled people can safely evacuate from high-rise residential buildings ...
Recommendations for widespread improvements to the way the air travel industry treats disabled passengers could make a ...
The number of internal reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly doubled last year, according to ...
The rail regulator has been asked why it has failed to do more in an annual report to stress disabled people’s right to “turn up and go” when accessing the railway network. The Office of Rail and ...
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has refused to explain why she whipped up hostility against disabled people by warning of ...
Ministers are considering measures to cut rising spending on disability benefits, and the possibility of merging personal independence payment with universal credit, a new government green paper has ...
The government has refused to apologise for the “appallingly unnecessary” impact of austerity spending cuts, after researchers linked post-2010 reductions in spending on social care and health to more ...
A disabled woman left in “great distress” by an “immoral” Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) scheme – which allows it to take money from her benefits to pay off utility debts – is asking the high ...
Ministers are poised to hand more than a billion pounds to discredited private sector outsourcing giants so they can continue to provide disability benefit assessments for another three years. The ...
Hundreds of “forgotten” and “abandoned” young disabled people across the country have taken part in peaceful protests against government cuts to disability benefits, as part of a new movement of ...