Disability Poverty In The UK

EDM number 637 in 2007-08, proposed by Roger Berry on 07/01/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Disability discrimination, Diseases, Employment, Health services, Incomes and poverty and Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House notes that the Leonard Cheshire Disability report Disability Poverty in the UK finds that disabled people are twice as likely as non-disabled people to live in poverty; further notes that disabled people can experience poverty in a number of ways including financial poverty, poverty of aspiration and poverty of opportunity; further notes that average basic living costs are much higher for disabled people; further notes that disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed and seeking work than non-disabled people and that disabled people who are not expected to work are often trapped in inescapable poverty; believes that the extent of disability poverty in the UK today is unacceptable; and calls on the Government to make tackling disability poverty a priority.

This motion has been signed by a total of 255 MPs, 6 of these signatures have been withdrawn.