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Steve McCabe Excerpts
Monday 17th May 2021

(2 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justin Tomlinson Portrait Justin Tomlinson
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The SRTI—special rules for terminal illness—evaluation has been completed and will not need to be rerun through the forthcoming Green Paper.

Steve McCabe Portrait Steve McCabe (Birmingham, Selly Oak) (Lab) [V]
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Will the Minister recommend that his colleagues purchase and read the recently released e-book, “The Brown Envelope Book”, which contains more than 200 poems, pieces of prose and short plays about disabled people who say they have been“brutalised by the bureaucracy of the Department for Work and Pensions”?

Justin Tomlinson Portrait Justin Tomlinson
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The Government are rightly proud of providing record amounts of support for people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. Through our forthcoming health and disability Green Paper, we will work with stakeholders and those with real lived experience to make sure that we improve the services and support we provide.