Daily Archives: 26/02/2011

Inquiry aims to expose impact of cuts on independent living

26/02/2011 – 11:12 am

An inquiry by MPs and peers will investigate how the coalition government’s regime of spending cuts is affecting disabled people’s right to independent living.
The decision by the joint committee on human rights – whose members include the disabled peer Baroness [Jane] Campbell – to hold the inquiry on independent living has been welcomed by a [...]

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MPs hear first-hand evidence of DLA fears

26/02/2011 – 10:56 am

An influential committee of MPs has heard direct evidence from disabled people about their fears over the government’s disability benefit reforms.
Dame Anne Begg, the Labour MP who chairs the Commons work and pensions committee, had asked disabled people to take part in the experimental session so she and her colleagues could hear the “real voices [...]

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