Secret #disability #benefits report WILL be published whether #ThereseCoffey likes it or not
Therese Coffey: it seems she’s been too busy having a good time (in line with many of her Cabinet colleagues, we’ve learned) to publish a report on the quality of her work as it relates to people with disabilities who claim benefits.
Tough luck, Therese!
The Tory Work and Pensions Secretary has been sitting on a report on how claimants are affected by the way she runs disability benefits – presumably because it is damning, even though (allegedly) watered-down.
The benefits concerned are those received by people with long-term illnesses and disabilities: Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit (UC).
Well, she won’t be able to warm her backside on it for very much longer because the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, sick of waiting for her to pull her finger out, has given her an ultimatum.
It is: publish the report by January 11 or we will publish it in spite of you.
The report falls within the government’s protocol for publication so there really is no legitimate reason for any delay.
Committee chairman Stephen Timms (Labour) said:
The Secretary of State has consistently failed to give the Committee a good reason why this piece of research should not be made public. She even admits that it falls within the Government’s own protocol for publication.
The continued refusal to publish the results of the research, as promised to the participants who gave up their time, will do further damage to disabled people’s trust in the Department—which is already in short supply.
The Secretary of State now has a final opportunity to think again and publish the research. If not, the Committee is firmly agreed that we will be left with no choice but to publish the report ourselves.
Source: Coffey ordered to publish secret disability benefits report or MPs will do it for her
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From the linked benefitsandwork post: “However, the work and pensions committee have now grown impatient with the arrogant refusal of the department to even let them look at a copy under conditions of strict secrecy.”
From Committee chairman Stephen Timms: “The Secretary of State now has a final opportunity to think again and publish the research. If not, the Committee is firmly agreed that we will be left with no choice but to publish the report ourselves.”
I am slightly puzzled. How is the Committee to go about publishing the report if the Department for Work & Pensions, in the person of the abominable Coffey, CONTINUES “to refuse to even let them look at a copy under conditions of strict secrecy.”
Yet we been here before the dwp have had reports about it’s conduct way back yet on it goes these MPs now whots happening to the peasants but it’s still happening the cruelty of their aktions oh they bloody now it’s how they cull the stock through benefits denial aktion t4 rolling along with out much of a ado don’t hold your breath with these devils