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Are PIP and ESA Assessments working well?
29 October 2017 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee launched an inquiry into the effectiveness of assessments for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
Government gives more information about ESA retesting
10 October 2016 | News
... “I would like to update hon. Members on the main item of business undertaken by my Department since the House rose ...
EHRC says lack of progress on disability rights is society’s badge of shame
19 July 2016 | News
... their game so disabled people are not at a disadvantage. Businesses must use digitalisation as an opportunity to make ... Denying access to a large customer base simply is not good business practice and large venues must make it easier for ...
DSA award conflicts of interest
12 March 2015 | News
... students using taxpayers’ money. The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills did not spot soon enough the ...
Sickness absence and fluctuating health conditions
22 January 2015 | News
... widening the scope of income protection insurance so that businesses can better support those with fluctuating ... access to specialist occupational health support for small business through partnership with NHS and other providers ...
Unlawful detention of disabled people condemned
12 March 2014 | News
Tens of thousands of disabled people are being unlawfully detained in care homes and hospitals across England and Wales, according to a House of Lords committee report which concludes that legislation created to protect people with mental health conditions - including dementia and autism - has failed.
Parliamentary committee says scrap bedroom tax
15 December 2013 | News
In an interim report published today, Monday 16 December 2013, the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee calls on the Coalition Government to the repeal the Bedroom Tax.
While this is being considered, the Committee calls on the Government to suspend application of the Bedroom Tax for all those tenants to whom a reasonable alternative offer cannot be made.
Budget 2018
28 October 2018 | News
... for disabled children and adults on low incomes. £900m in business rates relief for small businesses and £650m to rejuvenate High Streets, including ... rising to £1,055,000. Public toilets New mandatory business rates relief for public lavatories. Social care ...
Disabled people still by far the worst affected by the bedroom tax
10 September 2019 | News
More than two thirds of households subject to the bedroom tax under housing benefit are in receipt of DLA, PIP, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, or Severe Disablement Allowance.
In an answer to a Parliamentary question on 9 September 2019, the Minister for Welfare Delivery Will Quince confirmed that as at April 2019, there were -
Starship Technologies – developing services with disabled people
17 April 2018 | News
... working with Starship Technologies. Founded in 2014 the business develops self-driving delivery robots (Personal ... delivered is changing at a rapid pace and there are many businesses competing in this market on price and speed – ...