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The disabled peer who has led UK opposition to the legalisation of assisted dying for decades has pledged to work to make a ...
Labour ministers are considering whether to start means-testing personal independence payment, which is likely to cut ...
A transport minister has told peers that it would be “counter-productive” – and take too long – to draw up rules that would ...
The minister for social security and disability has insisted that billions of pounds a year of cuts to disability benefits ...
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 ...
Disabled activists say they “will not give a single inch” in their resistance to billions of pounds of cuts confirmed ...
Disabled MPs have voted overwhelmingly against the assisted dying bill, and warned that it poses a clear danger to disabled ...
The government is considering whether to strengthen disability hate crime laws even further, after ministers agreed to make a long-awaited improvement that will mean longer sentences for ...
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 ...
Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. In her ...