This is too little, too late for disabled people -Debbie Abrahams MP

Debbie Abrahams MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to the Government's statement regarding the motability scheme, said: 

"This is too little, too late for disabled people, given that over 50,000 are having their Motability cars removed by this Government."

"This is a thinly veiled election bribe. If the Government really cared about disabled people, they would have done this a long time ago, and wouldn’t have introduced such punitive and unjust cuts including for Personal Independence Payments affecting over 160,000 people with chronic mental health conditions and to Employment Support Allowance affecting half a million sick and disabled people." 

"Only Labour will stick up for disabled people, who have already borne the brunt of seven years of austerity."

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Notes to editors

• Statement here http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2017-04-20/HCWS603/