Originally posted on
Vox Political:
National
disgrace: The green benches were almost empty during yesterday’s debate
on the DWP’s new ‘mandatory reconsideration’ regime – and the potential
number of deaths it is causing.
It is hard to know where to start. Perhaps with DWP minister Mike Penning’s failure to answer the questions raised in yesterday’s adjournment debate on the ESA ‘mandatory reconsideration’ process,
despite having prior notice of Sheila Gilmore’s entire presentation?
Perhaps with the DWP’s failure to release accurate statistics, which is
especially appalling as press officer Richard Caseby attacked a
newspaper for inaccuracies very recently? Perhaps with the DWP’s
continuing denial of the deaths caused by its increasingly-bizarre and
unreasonable attempts to save money?
(Apparently they’re “anecdotal” so they don’t count. Does everybody recall when
Iain Duncan Smith used similarly anecdotal evidence to support his claim that his benefit cap was “supporting” people into work, last year?)
The debate was brought to…
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