MS Research 2024

All MS research since 2014 is available via ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mo_Stewart/publications

Introduction

Following fourteen years of Conservative-led administration there are no limits to the political resistance to funding for those in greatest need who are unfit to work, as the politics of fear continues in the UK when masquerading as social policies which were designed to cause preventable harm to many.

Successive administrations, and the right-leaning national press, disregard the volumes of published books and research papers which identified the preventable harm generated since the adoption of the Work Capability Assessment in 2008 to limit access to the Employment and Support Allowance long-term disability benefit and, more recently, to limit access to the successor benefit Universal Credit.

Despite the fact that various select committees take evidence from experts, and detailed reports are written, the administration are under no obligation to accept recommendations made by the select committees and so all that evidence is often disregarded. Whilst the reports from the select committees are a matter of public record, if detailed expert testimony is disregarded by the administration then questions need to be asked as to the purpose of the select committees?