Contrary to common assumptions about the government’s proposed Personal Independence Payment (PIP) reforms, the evidence suggests that planned cuts will fall most heavily on disabled people with significant support needs, older working-age claimants, and those with physical health conditions. Drawing on DWP data and anonymised case studies, this briefing highlights how people with serious mobility, heart, neurological and mental health conditions could lose substantial financial support, and calls on MPs to oppose or amend the proposals.

Proposed restrictions to personal independence payment (PIP) are poorly targeted and risk significant hardship for disabled people. Many of those affected have high support needs, are older claimants, or live with physical health conditions, despite government claims that the reforms target people with ‘lower needs’. Drawing on DWP data and anonymised case studies, this submission warns that some disabled people could lose hundreds of pounds a month and calls for the proposed PIP eligibility changes to be withdrawn.

Private renters in the City of Westminster face growing pressures, with high rents, poor housing conditions and insecurity leaving many tenants struggling to afford and remain in their homes. Fear of eviction and unaffordable rent increases often prevents tenants from challenging disrepair and poor living conditions. The manifesto, co-produced with a group of renters living on low incomes in Westminster, calls for stronger action against rogue landlords, the introduction of landlord licensing, greater support for struggling renters, and measures to improve affordability and security across the private rented sector.

As homelessness grows, growing numbers of households in the City of Westminster are spending years in temporary accommodation, often in conditions that leave them feeling trapped, isolated and unable to move on with their lives. Residents face long waits for permanent housing, poor living conditions, unsuitable and overcrowded accommodation, disruption to work, education and healthcare, and a lack of clear communication from the council. Drawing on in-depth interviews, this co-produced report, developed with peer researchers who have lived experience of temporary accommodation, calls for urgent action to improve standards and support for people in temporary accommodation.

The government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits following the Spring Statement are rushed, poorly evidenced and risk causing significant hardship. Some disabled people could lose more than 60% of their income, with 50,000 additional children pushed into poverty. Drawing on newly published impact assessments and Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) analysis, this briefing argues that the changes will affect disabled people with the most significant support needs, including some receiving the highest level of PIP support, and urges MPs to oppose the proposals and press for meaningful reform instead.

A High Court ruling has found the previous government’s consultation on proposed disability benefit cuts was unlawful. The court held that the consultation was too short, failed to clearly explain the financial impact on claimants, and did not make clear that reducing spending was a key objective. The proposals, now set to be re-consulted on, could push large numbers of disabled people into poverty while doing little to increase employment. This briefing argues that the government should abandon the plans and instead pursue disability benefit reforms that provide greater security and support.

The government’s ambitions to increase employment and support more disabled people into work will only succeed if accompanied by meaningful reform of the health and disability benefits system. Cuts to disability benefits could undermine wider employment reforms by increasing poverty, discouraging people from trying work, and damaging trust in the system. The briefing calls for a benefits system that provides financial security, protects disabled people from unfair reassessments and sanctions, and ensures that engagement with employment support remains voluntary and supportive rather than punitive.

The government has decided to maintain plans to find £3 billion of savings in the health and disability benefits budget, originally set out by the previous government. Earlier proposals to tighten work capability assessment criteria would have removed over £400 a month from hundreds of thousands of disabled people while doing little to increase employment. The briefing argues that ministers have yet to rule out similarly restrictive reforms, and urges the government to focus instead on changes that genuinely support disabled people into work without reducing vital financial support.