UN Report on the Impact of Welfare Cuts on Disabled People

The motion

That the Parliament notes the inquiry by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the impact of welfare cuts on disabled people; notes that this report assesses what it considers the detrimental impact that the UK Conservative administration's welfare reforms have had on disabled people, and gives a damning insight into the effect that its austerity welfare cuts has had; accepts the report's findings that “there is reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities has been met”; considers that the UK Government's welfare reforms have disproportionally and adversely affected the rights of disabled people; notes the view that consideration should be given to the committee’s proposals and that the UK Government should establish a mechanism to permanently monitor the impact of policies relating to disabled people's standard of living and their ability to work and live independently; further notes the view that consideration should be given to all of the recommendations outlined in the report, including taking appropriate measures to tackle any negative and discriminatory stereotypes or prejudice against disabled people in public or in the media, including the notion that dependency on benefits is, in itself, a disincentive to employment, and further notes the view that the UK Government should conduct a comprehensive human rights-based cumulative impact assessment into its welfare reforms and to see at first-hand the detrimental impact that its reduction in social benefits for disabled people, including those in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, is having on people.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 26 Lab 2 Green 1

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