SHAW TRUST'S BREAK THE CHAINS CAMPAIGN
EDM number 271 in 2004-05, proposed by Paul Holmes on 01/12/2004.
That this House notes with concern that less than half of disabled people of working age are in work and that disabled people are more tha twice as likely as non-disabled people to have no qualifications; supports the Shaw Trust's Break the Chains campaign; believes that it is right to provide opportunities and support for disabled people to move from welfare to work through programmes such as the New Deal for Disabled People and Workstep; and calls on the Government to reinvest benefit savings to expand these programmes so that increasing numbers of disabled people can be supported into work.
This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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