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ALT Alt text: Graphic with text and a photo of a smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a black top with a red and white pattern. The text reads: “Disability Labour members have nominated Lucy Powell for Labour Party Deputy Leader.” Below is the Disability Labour logo, featuring a red rose and the slogan “Nothing about us without us.” At the bottom is a red banner with the website “disabilitylabour.org.uk”.
ALT Stop the cuts placard held up next to big ben
![That this House, whilst noting the need for the reform of the social security system, and agreeing with the Government’s principles for providing support to people into work and protecting people who cannot work, declines to give a Second Reading to the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill because its provisions have not been subject to a formal consultation with disabled people, or co-produced with them, or their carers; because the Office for Budget Responsibility is not due to publish its analysis of the employment impact of these reforms until the autumn of 2025; because the majority of the additional employment support funding will not be in place until the end of the decade...
[Full text available here: https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/96167]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuxEyM4WgAA2LzS.jpg?name=orig)
ALT That this House, whilst noting the need for the reform of the social security system, and agreeing with the Government’s principles for providing support to people into work and protecting people who cannot work, declines to give a Second Reading to the Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill because its provisions have not been subject to a formal consultation with disabled people, or co-produced with them, or their carers; because the Office for Budget Responsibility is not due to publish its analysis of the employment impact of these reforms until the autumn of 2025; because the majority of the additional employment support funding will not be in place until the end of the decade... [Full text available here: https://commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/96167]
ALT List of MPs who signed the reasoned amendment: Rachael Maskell Neil Duncan-Jordan Clive Efford Lorraine Beavers Chris Hinchliff Mary Glindon Cat Eccles Paula Barker Cat Smith Olivia Blake Peter Lamb Mr Richard Quigley Ms Marie Rimmer Emma Lewell Richard Burgon Kate Osborne Rebecca Long Bailey Bell Ribeiro-Addy Jon Trickett Dr Simon Opher Ian Lavery Apsana Begum Ian Byrne John McDonnell Nadia Whittome Ms Diane Abbott Kim Johnson Andy McDonald Brian Leishman Imran Hussain Steve Witherden Mary Kelly Foy Clive Lewis Grahame Morris Claire Hanna Sorcha Eastwood Siân Berry Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Liz Saville Roberts Ben Lake Ann Davies Llinos Medi Adrian Ramsay Pam Cox Shockat Adam Ayoub Khan Mr Adnan Hussain Iqbal Mohamed Jeremy Corbyn Stephen Flynn Pete Wishart Kirsty Blackman Brendan O’Hara Stephen Gethins Chris Law Dave Doogan Seamus Logan Graham Leadbitter Zarah Sultana Maureen Burke Abtisam Mohamed Navendu Mishra Terry Jermy Ms Stella Creasy Yasmin Qureshi
ALT The cover of Disability Wales' Social Model of Disability Toolkit. It has a blue background with a design that includes a white rectangle at the top left, containing the DW logo. Below the white rectangle, there are coloured blocks in turquoise and purple. The title "Social Model of Disability" is written in orange text on a dark blue background, with "A Toolkit" in white text below it.
ALT "Today is a sad indictment of how we make policy in this country. Quote from Max Mosley, senior economist: We've ended up with a rushed and poorly designed set of reforms to disability benefits as a scramble to find government savings after GDP growth was lower than expected following the autumn budget. Something has gone seriously wrong here. How have we ended up in a world where 1 percentage point error in our GDP forecasts cascades down into pushing a quarter of a million people into poverty?"
