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Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government ...
The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a bill passed by MPs so “tight” that only a very few people will be able ...
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, ...
Disabled people’s lives will be increasingly in danger because of MPs’ failure to understand the risks posed by the assisted ...
The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits ...
Disabled MPs have voted overwhelmingly against the assisted dying bill, and warned that it poses a clear danger to disabled ...
The social security and disability minister has misled MPs after suggesting he has ushered in a new era of openness and transparency in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Sir Stephen ...
The government is considering whether to strengthen disability hate crime laws even further, after ministers agreed to make a ...
A transport minister has told peers that it would be “counter-productive” – and take too long – to draw up rules that would ...
The high court has given two disabled campaigners permission to challenge the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over its failure to offer recipients of so-called legacy benefits the same ...
A disabled woman’s high court victory has highlighted how the current social care system has a disproportionately negative impact on disabled people with the highest support needs, say campaigners.
A tribunal has told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to pay nearly £50,000 in damages to a Deaf man after repeatedly failing to provide him with the interpreters he needed for job-related ...