Nearly ten per cent of people in parts of the UK are entitled to lease a vehicle under the controversial Motability programme. Motability was set up to help those with serious physical disabilities ...
British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday that she plans to reform the 'motability' scheme, which allows ...
Rachel Reeves is planning to restrict disabled people’s access to cars through the benefits system in a bid to save £1bn, it has emerged. The chancellor is reportedly considering reforming the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Carmakers have privately warned the government against a proposed crackdown on the Motability scheme that helps ...
Scotland's Social Justice Secretary has written to UK ministers urging them not to slash the Motability scheme for disabled drivers. The SNP’s Shirley-Anne Somerville said nearly 90,000 disabled Scots ...
The company providing cars to disabled people has added another 100,000 benefits claimants to the scheme in the past year, the latest figures show. It comes amid growing concern that the “out of ...
Downing Street has confirmed that ministers will "always scrutinise spending of taxpayers' money", after the Transport Secretary indicated that access to "luxury" vehicles through a disability vehicle ...
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