The House of Commons debate came after
the Government
The Government are the people who run the country. The Government decide how much
tax
Tax is the money that pays for things like schools, hospitals and the police. There are different types of taxes like
income tax
Income tax is the money that is taken out of the money you earn every month. It helps to pay for things we all need like hospitals and schools.
,
VAT
VAT is also called Value Added Tax. VAT is the extra money you pay when you buy things. The money goes to the government to pay for things like schools and hospitals.
and
council tax
Council Tax is the money that people pay to the council. It helps to pay for things like social care (support for people), parks and dustbin collection.
.
people should pay and how things like the National Health Service (
NHS
The NHS is the National Health Service. The NHS gives free healthcare to everyone in the UK and includes things like your GP (doctors) surgery and hospitals.
) should work.
Watchdog, the Equalities and
Human Rights
Human
rights
Rights are the things everyone should be allowed to do like have a say, or go to school.
are the rights that everyone has. These include the right to go to school and the right to start a family.
Commission (EHRC) warned the Government’s current impact assessment on
cuts
Cuts are when there is less money to pay for things like clubs and support.
to ESA WRAG contained “very little in the way of evidence” and “limited analysis".
Rob Holland, Parliamentary
Manager
A manager is a boss at work. They tell you what you need to do and give you support if you need it.
at the
learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things.
charity Mencap said:
Despite this the Government are intent, based on little evidence, that taking away £1,500 a year from disabled people will incentivise them to find work. The mounting evidence suggests the opposite, that cutting Employment and Support Allowance will push disabled people further from work and closer to poverty.
Instead the Government should be focusing on changing employer attitudes, improving in-work support for both employers and disabled people and making the work programme work effectively.
The Government needs to give an answer as to why they are refusing to act in the face of this opposition to disability benefit cuts, and why they feel it too much to carry out the full impact assessment that disabled people deserve.