General Article Government rejects welfare amendments and ignores consequences of DLA cuts

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Disability Rights UK is a membership organisation representing over 500 organisations across the country. We supported the amendments made to the Welfare Reform Bill in the House of Lords, overturned by the Government in the Commons today.

Neil Coyle, Disability Rights UK Director of Policy and Campaigns, says:

‘The Government’s removal of protections for some disabled people from the Welfare Reform Bill ignores the hundreds of thousands of disabled people directly affected, the hundreds of...

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