Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub – Disability News Service
She’ll never support it: Therese Coffey’s record suggests she is not sympathetic to disabled benefit claimants – so why would she take on disabled workers?
Work and pensions secretary Dr Therese Coffey has shown “active contempt for disability rights” by refusing to sign up to her own flagship disability employment scheme, information released by the government has confirmed.
Here’s Disability News Service:
A freedom of information (FoI) response from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that Coffey is refusing to join Disability Confident.
DNS asked the department in the FoI request whether Coffey and 11 other current and former ministers were members of the scheme.
In its FoI response on Friday (3 July), DWP said it did not need to provide the information because it was easily available online.
It pointed to its own website, and a list of Disability Confident members, which had been updated the same day.
That list showed that all four of the MPs who serve as ministers alongside Coffey – Justin Tomlinson, Mims Davies, Will Quince and Guy Opperman – have signed up, although Quince had only done so since DNS first raised concerns in March about current and former ministers turning their back on the scheme.
But Coffey, who has been work and pensions secretary since last September and has been an MP since 2010, is not on the list, even though – like all MPs – she employs staff to assist with her parliamentary duties.
A DWP spokesperson this week refused to comment when asked why Dr Coffey had not signed up to Disability Confident, and whether it showed that she did not value the scheme, and that she did not view the employment of disabled people as important.
I think this silence speaks volumes. Don’t you?
Source: Coffey shows ‘active contempt’ for rights over Disability Confident snub – Disability News Service
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