At a meeting with Mark Hoban, the ‘work capability assessment’ (WCA) Minister, a delegation of disability activists and I presented him with a systematic catalogue of all the main weaknesses, faults and failures of the whole WCA process. He was told in no uncertain terms that under the Evidence-Based Review new descriptors are needed now since not […]
Posts Tagged ‘Mark Hoban’
Employment Minister Hoban forced to rethink Atos after critique from Spartacus
Sep 12th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
See you in the chamber! Ministers snub Atos campaigners’ delegation
Mar 15th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.This week something happened which is without precedent in my 40 years of parliamentary experience. On an issue of acute public importance where there had already been a parliamentary debate revealing a total cross-party consensus solidly opposed to government policy, a departmental minister then refused to see a delegation to discuss the matter further and […]
