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Hawkes, Nigel
BMJ, 01/2012, Volume: 344, Issue: jan18 3Journal Article
The government has won a key vote in the House of Lords, defeating attempts to delay the introduction of new disability payments. The aim of the bill, Lord Freud said, was not to cut the present cost of allowances to disabled people, running at £12.6bn a year, but to try to limit future increases by ensuring that the benefit was paid only to those who needed it. The gap of 500000 was focused on by critics in the Lords as proof that the government was seeking to save money by denying benefits to many people who would otherwise have received them.
