![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/disabled-people-number-nearly-14m-in-the-uk/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0_Screenshot-1.jpg&description=Columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey says disabled people make up 20% of the UK population but downgrading their parliamentary representation shows "how little the Tories think of us"Prime Minister Rishi Sunak This week during parliamentary questions, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, Vicky Foxcroft asked Conservative Claire Coutinho why they were no longer equal counterparts. This is due to the fact that the role of Minister for Disabled People was demoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary under the brief rule of Liz Truss. Foxcroft said in the Commons: "What messages does this send to disabled people who already feel like an afterthought from this government?" She called on the new government to reverse the decision immediately. As expected, Countinho barely addressed the concerns raised, stating: "Let me leave the lady in no doubt about how important this issue is to this government." Vicky Foxcroft is the Shadow Minister for Disabled People ( PA) However, she then went on to list the 1.3 million more disabled people in work, funding to SEND and end-of-life care - all of which are important if you're looking for work, have a disabled child or are dying but not pressing issues for the rest of us disabled people facing a difficult winter. "I don't want to think that they do that just for the sake of being cruel. I don't understand it, because arguably, it's a time when the role should be even more so promoted," Foxcroft told the Mirror. Claire Coutinho MP speaks during Prime Minister's Questions ( PA) "It's only when people kick off they go 'Oh, right. Yeah, we didn't think about this. "Think back to the Covid crisis press conferences and the fact that no BSL interpreters were invited, consistently. Emma Lewell-Buck, the Member of Parliament for South Tyneside ( DAILY MIRROR) "If they'd listened and thought about it they could've redesigned that press room to make sure there was space, but no," Foxcroft says. The new prime minister, when he was giving his first speec){kind=link}
Columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey says disabled people make up 20% of the UK population but downgrading their parliamentary representation shows “how little the Tories think of us”
This week during parliamentary questions, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, Vicky Foxcroft asked Conservative Claire Coutinho why they were no longer equal counterparts.
This is due to the fact that the role of Minister for Disabled People was demoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary under the brief rule of Liz Truss.
Foxcroft said in the Commons: “What messages does this send to disabled people who already feel like an afterthought from this government?”
She called on the new government to reverse the decision immediately.