Debbie Abrahams – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2016-05-26.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that disabled people are not disproportionately affected by reductions in government expenditure.

Damian Hinds

The Government has protected the value of disability benefits, exempting these payments from the uprating freeze and exempting those in receipt of them from the benefit cap.

Disability spending will be higher in every year to 2020 relative to both 2010 and to today.