Daily Archives: 16/10/2011

Conservative conference: Four ministers evade questions on work test

16/10/2011 – 9:00 am

Four Conservative ministers have evaded questions about the controversial work capability assessment (WCA), at their party’s annual conference.
Employment minister Chris Grayling, disabled people’s minister Maria Miller, welfare reform minister Lord Freud, and a special adviser for work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, all declined to discuss the subject with Disability News Service (DNS) this [...]

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Conservative conference: Miller denies government exaggerated DLA figures

16/10/2011 – 9:00 am

The minister for disabled people has denied that the government exaggerated the growth in claimants of disability benefits in order to justify scrapping disability living allowance (DLA).
Maria Miller insisted that the statistics used by the government to explain the need to replace DLA with the new personal independent payment (PIP) and cut spending by 20 [...]

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