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DR UK responds to the Public Accounts Committee Benefit Sanctions inquiry
07 December 2016 | News
The National Audit Office (NAO) are currently undertaking a study to examine whether the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is achieving value for money from its administration of benefit sanctions.
MPs say write off all bedroom tax arrears
20 March 2014 | News
A new report by Parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee says the Scottish Government’s plans to alleviate the bedroom tax in Scotland via Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) is flawed and inadequate.
DR UK response to access to justice reforms
10 March 2019 | News
Disability Rights UK submission to the Justice Committee inquiry into the access to justice implications of HMCTS of reforms.
MPs say government in denial over state of council finances
05 February 2019 | News
Local authority finances worse despite greater demand for vital services.
Read latest Public Accounts Committee report on Local Government Spending
Overall spending by local authorities on services fell by 19.2% in real terms between 2010-11 and 2016-17. The Government’s response to this is to provide a short-term cash fix.
Online abuse law fails to protect disabled people
21 January 2019 | News
Online abuse and the experience of disabled people.
This new Petitions Committee report shows the high level of abuse that disabled people receive online.
The Petitions Committee decided to investigate online abuse following Katie Price’s online petition which had 221,914 signatures.
Katie Price has a disabled child and both of them gave evidence to the Committee
Supported accommodation housing cap put back to 2019. New funding model announced
14 September 2016 | News
DWP announces that the application of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates to social rents for supported housing will commence in 2019/20 rather than 2018/19.
Read Damian Green’s the full statement
See press release - New funding model for supported accommodation
Increased fines for no face masks will ramp up pressure on disabled people
13 August 2020 | News
... members of the public when they are not wearing masks. “Businesses need to join in government’s intention in ...
MPs say legal aid changes make enforcing human rights unaffordable
18 July 2018 | News
Joint Committee on Human Rights report finds that reductions to legal aid and reforms to the system mean that for many people enforcement of their human rights is now “simply unaffordable.”
Large areas of the country are “legal aid deserts”, as practitioners withdraw from providing legal aid services since they can no longer afford to do this work.
MPs to examine Next steps to fix Universal Credit
30 November 2017 | News
The Work and Pensions Committee published a report on Universal Credit: the six-week wait in October 2017.
Find out more about the inquiry
Govt responds to Work and Pensions Committee Welfare to Work Inquiry
07 January 2016 | News
The Government has responded the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into DWP’s contracted welfare-to-work provision
The Department’s main contracts (Work Programme and Work Choice) will expire in 2017, and DWP will begin a re-tendering process next year.
The Committee invited written submissions until 28 August 2015.