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National Strategy for Disabled People in 2020

Last updated 3 years ago

We will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People before the end of 2020. This will look at ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs.

Conservative Party Manifesto 2019, p.17

Our verdict

  • This is a promise to publish a National Strategy for Disabled People in 2020.
  • On 2 April 2020 the Cabinet Office’s Disability Unit said:

    “As the coronavirus pandemic is the current priority for the government, we are reviewing our plans for the development of the strategy”.

    A further update in December 2020 announced that the aim had shifted to publication of the strategy in spring 2021.

  • The strategy was not published before the end of 2020 so this policy is ‘broken’.

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