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- 1. Five Glasgow CABx face closure under new funding proposals
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- ... Glasgow City Councillors to see sense and not implement these proposed cuts. The long term damage they would do would be simply devastating for the poorest people in our communities." Mike Dailly of ...
- 2. New minister for disabled people consistently votes in favour of their harm
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- ... under-secretary of state for disabled people under David Cameron. He becomes the fifth minister of state for disabled people in the past five years. Previous incumbents have included: Mike Penning ...
- 3. 12 December 2018 Update: 25% Off Final Coupon, 1 in 4 PIP Claimants Get Nil On Renewal, 46,000 ESA Claimants Hit By Cut Say Labour
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- ... Mike Betts failed to disclose this bonus to the work and pensions committee earlier this year. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) also found that Motability has made over a billion pounds ...
- 4. Motability boss to resign over ‘obscene’ pay, while customers overcharged by £390 million
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- The chief executive of Motability, Mike Betts, will resign by next May after details of a £2.2 million undisclosed bonus and overcharging of customers by £390 million were revealed by the National Audit ...
- 5. 23 May 2018 Update: PIP Bonus ‘Incentive To Ride Roughshod Over Claimants’ Plus Sanctions Yellow Card Ditched
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- ... to look into whether it is time to break up the monopoly. They are particularly unhappy that the pay of chief executive Mike Betts increased by 78 per cent, from £954,000 in 2008 to £1.7 million in 2017, ...
- 6. Motability scheme monopoly under threat over huge salaries and reserves
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- ... package of Mike Betts, Chief Executive of Motability Operations, increased by 78 per cent from £954,000 in 2008 to £1.7 million in 2017, which the MPs branded as “totally unacceptable”. In addition the ...
- 7. Seven ministers for disabled people in seven years
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- ... 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 Maria Miller 4 September 2012 – 7 October 2013 Esther McVey 7 October 2013 – 15 July 2014 Mike Penning 15 July 2014 – 8 May 2015 Mark Harper 8 May 2015 – 15 July ...
- 8. 9 September 2015 newsletter
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- ... tiny, private sector or unfunded groups or individuals. The ESA death statistics campaign is the work of Vox Political blogger Mike Sivier. The bogus sanction claimants were revealed by Welfare Weekly ...
- 9. 1 July Newsletter
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- ... scorn from Mike Sivier, the blogger who is trying to force the DWP to release them under the Freedom of Information Act. Sivier believes that Cameron intends to produce age standardised mortality rate ...
- 10. Cameron’s promise to release ESA death statistics is a life-threatening con trick
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- David Cameron told MPs yesterday that the notorious employment and support allowance (ESA) death statistics “are being prepared for publication as we speak”. However, campaigner Mike Sivier warns that ...
- 11. Petition calls for publication of ESA death statistics
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- ... caused such controversy that the DWP have since refused to publish updated statistics. Vox Political blogger and campaigner Mike Sivier recently won his case before the Information Commissioner for the ...
- 12. ESA death statistics may never see light of day
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- ... Commissioner to order publication more recent figures was made in February of this year. But it was withheld for months, before finally being sent on 30 April to the DWP and to Mike Sivier, the campaigning ...
- 13. 6 May 2015 newsletter
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- ... decision by the Information Commissioner to order publication was made in February of this year. But it was withheld for months , before finally being sent last week to the DWP and to Mike Sivier, the ...
- 14. Information Commissioner orders publication of ESA death statistics
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- ... the Information Commissioner to order publication was made in February of this year. But it was withheld for months , before finally being sent last week to the DWP and to Mike Sivier, the campaigning ...
- 15. “People are dying because they are being hounded” warns coma death claimant’s father
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- ... threatening letters continued even after Sheila was in a coma, however, and the issue was raised by her MP in February 2014. At the time , Mike Penning, minister for disabled people, apologised in the ...
- 16. Disabled men lose high court bid to stop Independent Living Fund closure
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- ... ruled that Mike Penning, former minister for disabled people, had not breached equality laws in announcing the closure of the Independent Living Fund in March. The two men had been granted permission for ...
- 17. Maximus to take over WCA from Atos
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- ... website has more details on Health Management Limited (HML), the Maximus owned UK company which will run the Health and Work Service. According to Ekklesia, the medical director at HML is Professor Mike ...
- 18. ESA death statistics – DWP say they will publish details, but won’t say when
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- ... November 2011. Blogger and activist Mike Sivier then made a Freedom of Information Act request for updated figures for 2012. This request was refused and Sivier finally managed to get the case before an ...
- 19. UK 'sleepwalking into violating disabled people's human right
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- ... people's rights – now risks sleepwalking towards the status of a systematic violator of these same rights." The government vigorously denied the claim. Disability minister Mike Penning said: "It is simply ...
- 20. DWP admits ESA is a failure
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- ... as long-term recipients of the benefit, the document says, and more people than expected are becoming eligible for it.” Mike Penning, DWP minister for the disabled responded by claiming that the coalition ...
- 21. Minister accuses tribunal president Judge Robert Martin of conflict of interest
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- Mike Penning, DWP minister for disabled people has accused Judge Robert Martin of a conflict of interest following the judge’s attacks on the DWP’s hugely inaccurate forecasts about how many appeals the ...
- 22. Newsletter 18 June 2014
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- ... capability assessment (WCA) process has virtually collapsed as the DWP goes into a welfare reform induced meltdown. It’s a claim which has led DWP minister Mike Penning to – somewhat bizarrely - accuse ...
- 23. 700,000 ESA medical backlog as claimant count starts to rise
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- Mike Penning told the Commons Work and Pensions committee this morning that there are now over 700,000 people waiting for a work capability assessment (WCA) and blamed Atos for the backlog according to ...
- 24. Second court case to challenge Independent Living Fund closure
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- The Department of Work and Pensions is facing a judicial review challenge by a group of disabled people of the decision of Minister for Disabled People Mike Penning to close the Independent Living Fund ...
- 25. Disappointing ruling for Grandparent carers
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- ... the discriminatory effect of the new Housing Benefit rules, by way of judicial review. The case was taken up by Mike Spencer from CPAG . Tom Royston of Garden Court North chambers and Richard Drabble ...
- 26. Is DWP looking for yet another new chief for Universal Credit?
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- Is the troubled Universal Credit programme looking for yet another new leader for the project? In his blog the Editor of Computer Weekly tells us that a good contact of his was approached by two separate ...
- 27. Disabled people forced to make 88-mile trip because Norwich assessment centre is on second floor
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- ... letter, welfare minister Mike Penning has told MPs there are no plans to introduce a new assessment centre in Norwich and the inadequate St Mary’s House, on Duke Street, will continue to be used for the ...
- 28. DWP target mental health claimants for ESA sanctions
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- ... Nigel Mills Amber Valley Anne Marie Morris Newton Abbot Teresa Pearce Erith and Thamesmead Mr Mike Thornton Eastleigh Dame Angela Watkinson Hornchurch and Upminster PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE ...
- 29. No changes to discredited WCA test, DWP announces
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- ... the DWP minister Mike Penning’s firmest undertakings in the report are that the DWP will: . . . conduct further work into the feasibility of Decision Maker triage, collocation of Decision Makers and ...
- 30. Atos is out: Government seeks new company to carry out fit for work tests
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- ... 2015 however Atos has reached an agreement with the Department for Work and Pensions to exit early. Minister for disabled people Mike Penning said he was “pleased that Atos will not receive a single ...
- 31. Newsletter 26 March 2014
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- ... which will replace childcare vouchers will be run partly by Atos, who will not be responsible for assessing eligibility. Jayne Linney and Mike Sivier have written blogs on the story. Still on the subject ...
- 32. Newsletter 12 March 2014
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- ... reviews that it’s unlikely to attract much enthusiasm from claimants this time around. And the minister for disabled people, Mike Penning, has apologised "unreservedly" to the family of Sheila Holt after ...
- 33. 'Brutal' new death sentence for ILF, but activists vow to fight o
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- Disabled campaigners have vowed to fight on in the battle to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF), despite the government deciding to go ahead with its closure. Mike Penning, the Conservative minister ...
- 34. Minister finally admits ESA repeat medicals suspended
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- Mike Penning, minister for disabled people, finally admitted in the WOW debate yesterday that the DWP have suspended the sending of employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants to Atos for repeat medical ...
- 35. Penning in tangle after secret order is revealed
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- ... decision - DWP had no plans to inform claimants, disability charities or MPs. Mike Penning, the Conservative minister for disabled people, was even asked in parliament what measures he was taking to ...
- 36. WOW petition debate: Government refusal is due to 'fear of revolt
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- ... the WOW campaign. She said: "In my view, the assessment should be the first step in a process of identifying and assembling the right support, including financial support." Mike Penning, the Conservative ...
- 37. WOW petition debate: Campaigners ready to plot their next move
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- ... petition in its entirety." Jones said he was encouraged by the suggestion by the Conservative minister for disabled people, Mike Penning, that his civil servants could work with the Centre for Welfare ...
- 38. Minister apologises after woman in coma was told to find work
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- ... people, Mike Penning, said he apologised "unreservedly" to the family of Sheila Holt after he was challenged in the Commons. "It's about time politicians did stand up and apologise when things went wrong. ...
- 39. Did minister for disabled mislead Commons over WCA
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- ... deliberately mislead the commons over the issue? On 24 February during DWP oral questions, Mike Penning, minister for disabled people was asked by conservative MP Anne Marie Morris: “Will the Minister ...
- 40. Newsletter 26 February 2014
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- ... So we're now we’re asking a question of the minister for disabled people, Mike Penning: did you deliberately mislead the Commons on 24 February when you failed to tell them about the decision to end repeat ...
- 41. Atos may lose WCA contract
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- ... company since the summer over the quality of its operation. Last week the disability minister Mike Penning told MPs that Atos's work had caused "real concern" because too many people appeal against their ...
- 42. Newsletter 12 February 2014
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- ... medical assessments and “treatment plans”. Read more about this in Mike Sivier’s blog post “Private company given contract to harass the long-term sick” Carers views are often unrepresented, although ...
- 43. MPs tell of six-month PIP delays (members only)
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- ... is inept, inefficient and not fit to carry out the work it is asked to do." Mike Penning, the Conservative minister for disabled people, admitted there were delays with the PIP process, but he claimed ...
- 44. Disabled woman 'left in coma by welfare reforms' (members only
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- ... appeal." Brown added: "In 2009, there was just one food bank in [the London borough of] Newham; now there are at least six, and at least four places where the hungry can get a free meal." Mike Penning, ...
- 45. 'Shocking' PIP figure raises new Motability concerns (members only
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- ... figures suggest. The new concerns emerged after the Commons work and pensions committee published responses from the government to five questions that disabled people's minister Mike Penning had been ...
- 46. Divisions in Coalition as MPs demand independent inquiry on poverty
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- Calls for a ‘commission of inquiry’ into the impact of the government’s changes to social security entitlements on poverty have won overwhelming support from Parliament. The motion by Labour’s Michael ...
- 47. Penning causes confusion over Atos contract comments
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- ... years' time. Giving evidence to the work and pensions select committee last week, Mike Penning told MPs that there were "global" contract negotiations taking place between Atos and the Department for ...
- 48. IDS armed police point weapons at disabled claimants
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- ... committee during the questioning of Mike Penning on PIP progress, were intimidated by the manner in which the armed police wielded their machine guns. In the report they state that the guns were pointed ...