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Performance Of Atos In Work Capability Assessments

EDM number 136 in 2013-14, proposed by George Galloway on 20/05/2013.
Categorised under the topic of Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House notes that Greg Wood, a GP who worked at Atos as a senior adviser on mental health issues, has now resigned and has claimed that claimants were not assessed in an even-handed way, that evidence for claims was never put forward by the company for doctors to use and that medical staff were told to change reports if they were too favourable to claimants; believes that this is further important evidence in establishing that Atos is not fit for purpose and that many thousands of legitimate claimants are now being denied the benefits they have a right to; and urges the Government to undertake an urgent review of the way work capability assessments are being carried out in order to make the changes necessary to eliminate the injustices that are now being perpetrated.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway20/05/2013Bradford WestRespectProposed
Mark Durkan20/05/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Margaret Ritchie21/05/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon21/05/2013StrangfordDUPSeconded
Alan Meale21/05/2013MansfieldLabourSeconded
Jonathan Edwards21/05/2013Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
Martin Caton21/05/2013GowerLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin21/05/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Andrew George21/05/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins03/06/2013Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn03/06/2013Islington NorthLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn03/06/2013JarrowLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell04/06/2013Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff04/06/2013Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Graham Stringer04/06/2013Blackley and BroughtonLabourSigned
Jim McGovern04/06/2013Dundee WestLabourSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe05/06/2013Bradford SouthLabourSigned
David Anderson05/06/2013BlaydonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock06/06/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Naomi Long19/06/2013Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Lindsay Roy19/06/2013GlenrothesLabourSigned

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