Disabled people don’t face a “hostile environment” and MPs should all stop saying so, a Tory minister has demanded.
MPs shouted their fury as Sarah Newton made the shameless claim in the Commons – despite more than 100,000 people winning appeals to get disability benefit PIP.
Since PIP launched in 2013, benefit changes have also forced more than 75,000 people to give up their specially-adapted Motability cars.
Shadow Disabilities Minister Marsha De Cordova said the UN had found “grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights” in the UK.
The Labour MP added today: “This government’s policies have created a hostile environment causing grave violations on disabled people.”
But Ms Newton suggested people losing their cars should complain to the Motability charity – not the government.
The Tory minister said: “We have very strong protections for people with disabilities in our country.
“I honestly ask all members opposite, please do not use this language of hostile environment. It is simply not the case.
“And the very people that need all of our…
