A shadow minister has pledged that her party will continue to push for changes to the coalition?s welfare reform bill, but has suggested that Labour will still back key parts of the government agenda.
Margaret Curran, Labour?s shadow minister for disabled people, said it was vital to ?get people back to work, because we have got to start growing the economy?.
She told Disability News Service that the changes to Liberal Democrat party policy that were voted through last week ? thanks to the support of disabled activists ? were signs of ?progress?.
But she hinted that the Labour party would not back all of the policy changes approved through the Liberal Democrat motion in Birmingham.
Curran said concerns with the work of Atos Healthcare, the company that carries out ?fitness for work? tests on disabled people ? assessments introduced by the Labour government ? were ?real?.
But she said she had not researched details of the plan approved by Liberal Democrat members to replace Atos with a public or voluntary sector organisation once its contract expired, so she did not know ?how feasible that would be?.
But she did say that there were ?certainly enough complaints about Atos for that to be thought about?.
News provided by John Pring at www.disabilitynewsservice.com
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