Sentences with phrase «minister for disabled people»

As I began my new role as minister for disabled people, health and work, I was surprised to learn that around one in six working aged adults report having a disability.

After supporting David Cameron's bid for leadership of the Conservative Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People in December 2005.

He entered parliament as the MP for South West Surrey in 2005 and became shadow minister for disabled people, before entering Cameron's cabinet with the culture brief in 2010.

It may shock many readers to learn that more than # 13 billion of taxpayer's money is spent on sickness and incapacity benefits for people of working age, as pointed out by minister for disabled people Mike Penning this week.

Harper is the fourth minister for disabled people in this parliament — a troubled brief, presiding over some of the most controversial coalition policies; like his predecessors he can expect to face tough questions from MPs on the committee.

The convention is a «significant step forward» in achieving the equal rights for disabled people across the world, said minister for disabled people Anne McGuire.

Shadow Minister for Disabled People Mark Harper had a question on the pay of civil servants with disabilities:

Two severely disabled men who use the Independent Living Fund (ILF) have lost their bid to overturn the government's decision to close the ILF in June 2015, after the High Court ruled former minister for disabled people Mike Penning had not breached equality laws.

Kate Green, Labour's shadow minister for disabled people, says the policy was «costing more, damaging people's lives and not delivering what the government claimed it would.

He resigned from his post as immigration minister in February 2014 after he discovered that his cleaner was no longer entitled to work in the UK, but rejoined the government five months later as minister for disabled people.

She was made Shadow Minister for Disabled People by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

Closing the debate, minister for disabled people Mike Penning stated that a cumulative impact assessment would be «very complex».

The announcement by Maria Miller, minister for disabled people, that 36 of the remaining 54 Remploy factories will close, is a double poverty whammy, as 1,700 people face redundancy and an uncertain future.

During Mental Health Awareness Week, Sarah Newton, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work writes for PoliticsHome on the link between...

Following a reshuffle of Labour's shadow ministerial team in October 2013, Green was promoted to Shadow Minister for Disabled People.

Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people, who is tipped for promotion to the cabinet, said the party would not abandon the centre ground.

Mark Harper, the minister for disabled people, will appear in front of the work and pensions select committee on Wednesday today to defend the government's troubled record on implementation of the new disability benefit, the personal independence payment (PIP).

Debbie Abrahams is the shadow minister for disabled people and Labour MP for Oldham East & Saddleworth.

You can be extremely proud of your work in Government - as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, as Minister for Women and as Minister for Disabled People.

Everyone who comes to visit, from the shadow minister for disabled people to delivery drivers, admires it and comments on how striking and beautiful it is.

There was an awful lot of the minister for disabled people just about confirming her ability to read out loud from a piece of paper.

We don't know the answer to that because although the shadow health minister Jamie Reed invited Maria Miller to discuss those possibilities for the Remploy factory in his constituency, the minister for disabled people cancelled.

He has been quietly but persistently questioning the government, and as a result he is building up an in depth knowledge of welfare as Shadow Minister for Disabled People.

[4] In October 2017, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Disabled People, following the resignation of Marie Rimmer.

Mr Penning was the Minister for Disabled People and has been a Northern Ireland minister and a Transport minister.

The Minister for Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson, calls on politicians to help more disabled jobseekers into work.