Thursday 15th December 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Jim Sheridan Portrait Jim Sheridan (Paisley and Renfrewshire North) (Lab)
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I congratulate my right hon. Friend on securing this debate. Does she accept that it is different for people with disabilities who are made redundant? A man in my constituency has a facial disfigurement so bad that he could not use public transport, go into a restaurant or do the normal things that other people do. Remploy was the only place that he had and the only thing that kept him sane. He is now locked in his bedroom with the curtains closed, more or less, and has nowhere to go.

Ann Clwyd Portrait Ann Clwyd
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That is a very sad case. I am sure that we could all discuss similar cases. I know of one man in Penrhiwceiber who also never comes out of his house. It is tragic to see the effect on a whole family when somebody cannot leave the house, for whatever reason.