The figure is nearly HALF the £500million the Government hoped to save this year with the hated rules - ministers estimate around 35,000 claimants will be affected
January 2014
Labour MP, Peter Hain, has called on disability benefit assessment firm Capita and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to "urgently reform" its "punitive" assessment process, which is "causing no end of misery" to sick and disabled claimants, before it descends into similar "problems experienced with ATOS and the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) assessments".
Because of his own personal experience of caring for a disabled child, David Cameron has always promised to give the issue special attention. During election campaigning in 2010 David Cameron spoke to Jonathan Bartley and his disabled son Samuel Photo: PA 2:22PM GMT 20 Jan 2011
You are more likely to die of an eating disorderthan any other form of mental healthproblem. Picture: Callum Bennets
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Carers Trust have launched a guide they have jointly developed to improving dementia care entitled the 'Triangle of Care' at an event in Parliament. Local MP, Mark Hunter, attended the launch to meet with one of his constituents, retired consultant Mr Peter Dunlop from Cheadle Hulme, who spoke at the event.