A month ago the Government was defeated in a vote on the floor of the House of Commons on a very important issue – the question of the level of the EU budget. The Government whips strained every muscle they could to avoid defeat, but having been decisively defeated, the Government simply ignored the vote. […]
Posts Tagged ‘ATOS’
My speech on ATOS Work Capability Assessments
Jan 17th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.I beg to move that this House has considered the matter of Atos work capability assessments. I warmly thank the Backbench Business Committee for enabling me and cross-party colleagues to introduce this debate on Atos work capability assessments. There is enormous concern about the issue both in the country and in this House, as witnessed […]
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Atos debate in the House now fixed for Thursday 17 January
Jan 10th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.I am very pleased to announce that the elected Back-Bench Business Committe in the Commons has now arranged for a full 3-hour debate on Atos work capability assessments to take place in the main chamber (not in Westminster Hall where there has already previously been a debate on Atos) on Thursday 17 January starting shortly […]
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Commons debate on Atos now likely next month
Dec 6th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.This week I sought an early debate on the appalling injustices of the Atos work capability assessments from the Commons backbench business committee. I’m very pleased that the committee has told me that “it is keen to see a debate on this issue, and so hopes to allocate time in January 2013″. I hope therefore […]
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More horror stories from Atos
Oct 29th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.I have now received several more letters from around the country which illustrate the ruthlessness with which Atos Healthcare is dismissing all the medical evidence as ‘irrelevant’ and then cavalierly awarding people with patently serious disabilities 0 points.
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The speech of a “benefit scrounger”
Oct 21st, 2012 by Newsdesk.Sue Marsh who blogs at Diary of a Benefit Scrounger, and co-wrote the Spartacus report on the abolition of the Disability Living Allowance, made the following great speech at the TUC demonstration in Hyde Park yesterday.
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The Atos nightmare gets worse
Oct 15th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.As a result of my taking up the case of my constituent Colin Trayner in a House of Commons adjournment debate, who was an epileptic since birth subject to grand mal seizures and who at the age of 29 was declared fit for work but died in a grand mal fit before his appeal could be heard, […]
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Government now deducting benefits from those in work if they don’t find extra work
Oct 14th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.It has almost escaped notice that next year the government will be cutting benefits from those already in work – unless they can get extra work which may of course not be available. This will affect 1,400,000 people who are working part-time because they can’t get full-time work.
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How many hundreds has Atos Healthcare killed so far?
Sep 21st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Last Thursday I used an Adjournment debate I had won in the Common ballot to raise the tragedy of one of my constituents, Colin Traynor. He was diagnosed with grand mal epilepsy at the age of 14 months. At the age of 25 in 2008, striving to be independent, he was interviewed at Oldham Jobcentre to […]
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Join The Atos Games!
Aug 1st, 2012 by Newsdesk.On your marks, get set… for a week of Paralympic fun and games against Atos! From Monday 27 to Friday 31 August, join Disabled People Against Cuts for The Atos Games – five days of action against a company that’s sponsoring the Paralympics but wrecking disabled people’s lives. We are calling on disabled people, disabled activists, families, colleagues, friends and […]
