<p>Rights of Disabled People </p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 19 September 2017.

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Photo of Rhianon Passmore Rhianon Passmore Labour 2:11, 19 September 2017

Thank you, First Minister. Theresia Degener, the chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has called it a ‘human catastrophe’, following their inquiry into the way that the UK treats its disabled citizens. Atos and Capita, who are tasked by the UK Government with carrying out with personal independent payment assessments, have earned over £0.5 billion of public money since 2013, while over 61 per cent of those who appealed against their PIP assessments in their tribunal have won their case. Will the First Minister outline what the Welsh Government is doing to support disabled people in Wales during the unprecedented reductions in their incomes by the UK Government?