The Conservative shadow work and pensions secretary may finally have accepted that spending on social security is not “out of ...

An accessible transport expert was left stuck in mid-air on an unsafe platform lift for over an hour at this week’s ...

The government has refused to say whether the disability minister was told that a member of the steering group reviewing ...

Transport industry managers are failing to budget for access to be embedded from the start of major projects because of the ...

The disability minister has supported his government’s “unprincipled” decision to slash accessible housing targets set by the last Conservative government. Under plans put forward by Tory ...

A Tory shadow minister has said that accusing parents of “gaming the system” to secure support for their disabled children is “populist BS*”, just hours after his leader accused many disabled ...

A new Department for Work and Pensions overpayments scandal could be brewing, after a series of reports that disabled people receiving certain benefits are being overpaid universal credit. Disabled ...

Disabled people’s organisations have expressed shock and alarm at the disability minister’s “completely unacceptable” decision to impose gagging orders on members of his new “independent” advisory ...

Four national disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have told the Covid inquiry that people who receive care and support were “ignored by design” during the pandemic. The inquiry heard on Monday that ...

A senior figure in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) loudly “joked” about disability equality and reasonable adjustments as he waited to give evidence to a committee of MPs, Disability News ...

“Positive” new figures show there are far more disabled MPs in the House of Commons than previously thought, and possibly as many as 40. Even after the addition of at least three new disabled MPs ...

The government’s decision to tighten eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) will drag a quarter of a million working-age people into absolute poverty* by 2030, official documents have ...