Daily Archives: 10/10/2011

Labour conference: Legal aid cuts will ‘decimate’ social welfare legal system

10/10/2011 – 9:00 am

Government cuts to the legal aid budget will lead to the “decimation” of the civil law system and cause huge problems for disabled people, Labour party members have heard.
The cuts are part of the government’s legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill, which is currently at its committee stage in the Commons.
Steve Hynes, director [...]

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Labour conference: Labour ‘will not match Liberal Democrats on welfare reform’

10/10/2011 – 9:00 am

A shadow minister has pledged that her party will continue to push for changes to the coalition’s welfare reform bill, but has suggested that Labour will still back key parts of the government agenda.
Margaret Curran, Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people, said it was vital to “get people back to work, because we have got [...]

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