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Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

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Scope Briefing on Disability

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I understand that disabled people and their families can encounter many hidden costs, from specialised equipment to travel expenditure.

I welcome the ongoing work on practical measures that will improve the daily lives of people with disabilities and ensure they can fully participate in society through the National Strategy for Disabled People. The strategy is to be published later this year and will set out how Government will support people with disabilities in all aspects and phases of life.

Furthermore, the upcoming Health and Disability Green Paper will explore how the welfare system can better meet the needs of disabled people and those with health conditions. Spending in this area increased by almost 5 per cent in 2020 from £19 billion to £20 billion.

I encourage constituents to apply for additional support: through universal credit; through the increase in the discretionary housing payment; or through the £500 million hardship fund allocated by local authorities based on individual circumstances.

To help with travel costs, many councils also offer free or discounted fares.  Additionally, local councils have been allocated funds – via the Covid Winter Grant Scheme - to help those facing hardship, with a focus on families with children. I am encouraged that our Access to Work programme has been updated so that people can access a blended offer that provides support both at home and at someone’s normal place of work.

It is vital that our welfare system supports those who need it and would emphasise that this year alone over £55 billion is being spent on benefits to support disabled people and those with health conditions. I know my colleagues across government continue to monitor research and campaigning from a wide variety of sources as they consider the future of welfare and disability policy.

Campaign Emails

  • ASRU Change Programme
  • Adult Social Care
  • Air Quality
  • Alcohol and Beer Duty
  • Animal Exports
  • Animal Testing
  • Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill
  • Animal Welfare Commitments
  • Animal Welfare
  • Arms Exports
  • Asylum accommodation conditions (Napier and Penally Barracks)
  • Australia Trade and ISDS
  • BT Strike
  • Baby Loss
  • Badgers and Bovine TB
  • Beer Duty
  • Bomb Disposal and Whales
  • CEE Bill
  • COP26: Global Ambition
  • Caged Farm Animals
  • Calories in Restaurants
  • Cash Availability and Acceptance
  • Cats in Kept Animals Bill
  • Channel 4
  • Child Poverty
  • Cladding, Leaseholders & The Fire Safety Bill
  • Conversion Therapy
  • Coronavirus: Provision of Tests
  • Coronavirus: Test and Trace
  • Crime Not Compliment campaign
  • Dangerous Dogs Act
  • Dementia Diagnosis and Research
  • Diabetes
  • Driven Grouse Shooting
  • Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act
  • Elections Act
  • Elephants and Ivory Sales
  • Endometriosis and PCOS
  • Energy Prices and Net Zero
  • Environment Bill: Ancient Woodland Standard
  • Flexible Working
  • Food Production Standards
  • Fox Hunting
  • Fuel Duty and Prices
  • Fuel Poverty
  • Funding of Fire Services
  • Gambling Regulation
  • Gamebird Battery Cages
  • Green Boilers
  • HIV
  • Hate Crime (Misogyny)
  • Health and Care Act: Workforce
  • Human Rights Defenders
  • Islamophobia
  • Kept Animals Bill
  • Kept Animals Bill
  • Meadows
  • Medical Cannabis
  • Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
  • Myanmar: Military Coup
  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
  • Neonicotinoids
  • New Plan for Immigration and Nationality and Borders Bill
  • Ocean Protection
  • Oil Drilling & Cambo Oil Field
  • Operose and Centene
  • Overseas Operations Bill
  • PCSC Bill Part 3 (Protests)
  • PPE Contracts Judicial Reviews
  • Peat
  • Persecution of Christian Women
  • Plastic Pollution
  • Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
  • Primates as Pets
  • Proportional Property Tax Proposal
  • Protection of Hedgerows
  • Protection of Retail Workers
  • Puppy Smuggling
  • Radiotherapy
  • SEND Funding
  • Scope Briefing on Disability
  • Settled Status
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Social Care Cap
  • Storm Overflows
  • Trophy Hunting
  • Uplands
  • VAT on Electric Vehicle Charging in Public Places
  • VAWG Worldwide
  • Vagrancy Act 1824
  • Visa-Free Work Permits for Creative Professionals
  • Waste and Recycling

Neil O'Brien MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

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