House of Commons - Welfare Reform Bill (Consideration of Lords Amendments)
Cable welcomes the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill but warns of difficulties in assessing the capability to work of people with mental conditions.
8 May 2007
Cable welcomes the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill but warns of difficulties in assessing the capability to work of people with mental conditions.
A charity for young carers is calling on the government to set up an urgent inquiry into the plight of children caring for disabled relatives. It follows the recent case of Deanne Asamoah - a 13-year-old girl who died from an overdose of morphine. It emerged she had been caring for her terminally ill mother for four years.
A third of stroke patients are still not treated in a specialist unit despite improvements in access, a national audit has shown.
Eight out of 10 of London's main tourist sites will be inaccessible for the disabled by the time the 2012 Olympics are held, it has been claimed. The study by London Assembly Liberal Democrats found most London Underground (LU) stations in central London would not become step-free until 2020. The report added 17 of the 27 Tube stations which will be refurbished by 2012 are in outer London.
The poorest households should pay less for their gas and electricity, according to Energywatch. Three million households in Britain struggle to pay, says the energy watchdog, and it wants the government to force firms to cut their bills.
Norman Lamb leads a Liberal Democrat opposition day debate highlighting the need to place more focus on mental health services and calling on the government to ensure mental health services are better funded and more widely available.