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Disability benefit changes 'are creating anxiety'
www.bbc.co.uk
[BBC News] - The chair of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee Dame Anne Begg has warned that the government's planned changes to disability benefit are creating anxiety. Her comments come after the committee urged the government not to introduce planned
Employers reject jobs scheme that's all work and no pay
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - The Commons work and pensions select committee is to examine the programme. Its chairman, the Labour MP Dame Anne Begg, said: "There is a huge risk that people on these schemes ... do not get into full-time work."
Google News: Begg - Small Businesses
[DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)] - Labour MP Dame Anne Begg welcomed the opening of a business in her constituency, despite the Government and despite banks not lending to it. Responding, Conservative Minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk said that two thirds of SMEs were able
We face a return to Dickensian Britain
www.heraldscotland.com
[Herald Scotland] - (In yesterday's debate one Tory backwoodsman seriously described being sick or disabled as "a lifestyle choice", to the righteous fury of Scots wheelchair-using MP Anne Begg.) These changes are being forced through without any evidence base to suggest
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