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Access
www.ictaglobal.org
ABTA
www.abtanet.com
Action Network [see article 22 June 2006]
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork
Age Concern
www.ace.org.uk
Age Positive
www.agepositive.gov.uk
Arthritis Care
www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Baywatch
www.dda.org.uk
BBC disability magazine club
Blind Links
http://seidata.com
www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/news
BBC Action Network
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/c2058
Benefits Help
www.disabilitybenefits.co.uk
Blind. National Institute
www.rnib.org.uk
Blue Badge Direct
www.bluebadgedirect.gov.uk
Blue Badge Network
www.bluebadgenetwork.org
British Council of Disabled People
British Stammering Ass.
www.stammering.org
www.bcodp.org.uk
Cancer
www.cancer.org.uk
Cancer Research
www.cancerresearch,uk,org
Carers UK
www.carersuk.org
Centre for
Independent Living
www.ncil.org.uk
Center for Independent Living
www.cilk.org.uk
Cerebral Palsy
www.scope.org.uk
Choices and Rights Disability
www.choiceandrights.demon.
Cirencester Town Council
www.cirencester.gov.uk
Cirencester Access Group
www.peter@thegraces.co.uk
Commission on Human Rights
www.unhchr.ch/html
Commission for Racial Equlaity
www.cre.gov.uk
Community Safety Officer
www.cotswolds.gov.uk
Cotswold District Council
www.cotswold.gov.uk
Council for Disability Rights
www.disabilityrights.org
Council for Deaf People
www.cacdp.demon.co.uk
Countryside Access
www.countryside.gov.uk
Countryside Rights of Way South Carney [CROWS]
www.crows@yahoo.co.uk
Data Protection
www.informationcommissioner.go.uk
Deafblind Ass.
www.deafblind.org.uk
DISC Disability Information & Support
01285-642783
Disability Access Symbols
www.gag.org
Disability Matters
www.disability.matters@yahoo.co.uk
Disabled Parents Network
www.disabledparentsnetwork.org.uk
Department of Health
www.doh.gov.uk
Department of Trade & Industry
www.dti.gov.uk
Department for Transport
www.dft.gov.uk
Department for Work and Pensions
www.dwp.gov.uk
Department for International Developments
www.dfid.gov.uk
Department for Works and Pensions
www.direct.gov.uk
www.dwp.gov.uk
Depression Alliance
www.depressionalliance.org
Direct Government
www.directgovernment.gov.uk
Disabilities
www.disabilitynet.co.uk
Disability Access Consultants
www.babelltd.uk
Disability Facts
http://www.disabilityfacts.com
Disability Europe
www.disabilityeurope.info
DisabilityGo
www.DisabilityGo.info
Disability Housing Wales
www.charterhousing.co.uk
Disability Jobsite
www.disabiltyjobsite.co.uk
Disability Magazine
www.disabilityview.co.uk
Disability Rights Commission
www.drc-gb.org/thelaw
Disability Signs.
www.vsar.tsnm.org
Downing Street
www.number-10.gov.uk
DPTAC
www.dptac.gov.uk
Driving Standards
www.dsa.gov.uk
DVLA
www.dvla.gov.uk
Dyslexia Association
www.bda-dyslexia.org.uk
Eurochild
www.eurochild.org

European Disability Forum
www.edf-feph.org
Environment Agency
www.environment-agncy.gov.uk
European Parliamentm - UK
www.europarl.org.uk
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
www.fco.gov.uk
Free Law Information
www.lawrights.co.uk
General Information
www.through-the-maze.org.uk
www.building-regulations.org
Gloucestershire News
www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire
Gloucestershire Council
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/
Clubs
Gloucestershire Radio
www.bbc.co.uk/England
Government Info. Service
www.open.gov.uk
General Information
Government News Network
www.gnn.gov.uk
Government Website
www.direct.gov.uk
Gloucestershire Association for Disability [GAD] Fund
www.beehive.thisis Gloucestershire.co.uk
Gloucestershire Life Styles
www.gloslifestyles.co.uk
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
www.guidedogs.org.uk
Guernsey
www.gov.gg.
Help The Aged
www.helptheaged,org.uk
Home Office
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
HPI Checks for vehicles
www.hpicheck.com
Human Rights
www.un.org
Independent Living Fund
www.ilf.org.uk
Independent Living Institute
www.independentliving.org
International Disability Alliance
http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org
International Symbols of Signage for Deaf & Blind
www.crazy.colour.com
Jersey
www.gov.je
Jewish Blind & Disabled
www.jbd.org
Job Agency for people with disability and long-term health problems
www.information@disabilitytimes.org.uk
Job Centre Plus
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
Law and Benefit Review
www.lawandbenefitreview.co.uk
List of Members of Parliament
www.locata.co.uk/commons
Local Government Ombudsman
www.lgo.org.uk
London Transport -Disabled
www.transportforall.com
ME, CFS, ETC.
www.sharelook.co.uk
Motability
www.motability.co.uk
Multiple Sclerosis
www.msvoice.co.uk
National Disability Council
www.ncd.gov
National Radar Key System
www.directenquiries.com
North Wilts District Council
www.northwilts.gov.uk
Occupational Safety & Health
www.iosh.co.uk
Ofgem [Gas and Elec]
www.ofgas.gov.uk
Ofcom [phones]
ofcom.or.uk
Office for Disability Issues
www.officefordisabilityissues.gov.uk
Office of Fair Trading
www.oft.gov.uk
Official UK Guide to Disabled Rights and Services
www.direct.gov.uk
Passport Office
www.ukpa.gov.uk
Patient Information Service
www.patient.co.uk
Post Office
www.postoffice.co.uk
Royal Mail
www.royalmail.com
Royal National Institute for the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk
Scope
www.scope.org.uk
Service Call
www.service-call.net
Signs/Stickers/Aids
www.disabledstickers.co.uk
Social Security Advisory Com.
www.ssac.org.uk
Spinal Injuries Ass.
www.spinal.co.uk
Support Charities
www.supportcharities.org.uk
The Nationwide Access Register
www.directenquiries.com
TV Licenses
www.tvlicensing.co.uk
UK Disability Forum
www.disabilityforum.org.uk
UK Disability Rights Commission
www.drc.gov.uk
Watchdogs
www.hfc.org.uk
Wheelchair travelling
www.wheelchair-travel.co.uk
Wiltshire County Council
www.wiltshire.gov.uk

All MP’s are listed by name and constituency on the Parliamentary website www.parliament.uk

The MP’s also have their own personal email sites which may be obtained from constituency offices. Details of MP’s email addresses may be obtained from the web by inserting the full Members name

It will be appreciated, that members of the Cabinet are often changed for various reasons. To contact the appropriate Cabinet member in charge of a government department log onto www.labour.org.uk/index for their details or www.number-10.gov.uk

The following Acts of Parliament are in some way or other controlling the way that you live if you are disabled or elderly:

1. The NHS and
Community Care Act 1990
2. The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
3. The Road Traffic Act 1960
4. The Health Act 2006
5. The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness [Eligibility] [England] [Amendment] [Regulations] 2006
6. Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000
7. Rail Vehicles Accessibility Regulations 2000
8. Transport Act 2000
9. Railways Act 1993
10. Public Service Vehicles
Accessibility Regulations 2004

1. The Community Care [Direct Payments] Act 1996
2. The Carers and Disabled Children’s Act 2000
[3] Independent Living Act 2006
[4] Special educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
[5] Disability Rights Commission Act 1999

[1] The Carers (Recognition
and Services Act] 1995
[2] The Carers and Disabled Children’s Act 2000
[3] Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
[6] Commissioner for Older People [Wales] Act 2006

[1] Data Protection Act 1998.
[2] Disability Discrimination Act 2005.
[3] Disability Discrimination Code of Practice [Goods, Facilities, Services, Premises] [Revocation] Order 2006 Code of Practice [Services, Public Functions, Private Clubs and Premises] [Appointed Day] Order 2006
[5] European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights 1950.
[6] Human Rights Act 1998.
[8] UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child 1989.
[9] Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
[10] Race Relations Act 1976.
premises] Order 2006
13 Commissioner for Older People [Wales] Act 2006

[1] Access to Personal Files Act 1987.
[2] Access to Health Records Act 191.
[3] Data Protection Act 1985.
[4] Data Protection Act 1998.

Overall responsibility for all work and pensions matters as well as public expenditure issues.

Responsible for:
• Labour market and the economy
• Labour market statistics
• Welfare Reform
• Jobcentre Plus
• The New Deal
• Incapacity Benefit Reform
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
• Lone parents, childcare and partners
• Ethnic minority employment (Chair of EME task force)
• Migrants, refugees & asylum seekers
• Adult Disadvantage
• Young people (Links with DfES)
• Older workers (including extending working lives)
• Age Discrimination (work)
• Employers (including the National Employment Panel)
• Skills
• Disadvantaged areas and regional issues
• Poverty including social exclusion
• Employment programmes
• Redundancies (including Rapid Response service)
• Industrial injuries disability benefit (IIDB)
• Compensation recovery
• Tax Credits

Responsible for:
• Stakeholder Pensions
• Private Pensions
• Financial Assistance Scheme
• Pensions Protection Fund
• Pensions Regulator
• Informed Choice
• Age Discrimination (retirement)
• Pension Reform
• The Pension Service
• State Pensions Provision including Pension Credit
• Winter Fuel Payments/Age Related Payments
• Age Positive including Extending Working Lives
• Regulatory Reform
• E-Government

Responsible for:
• All DWP issues in the Lords
• Child Support Agency
• Health and Safety Executive and Commission
• Maternity and Paternity Pay
• Sustainable Development issues
• Diversity
• Freedom of Information
• Data Protection
• Human Rights
• Devolution
• Research and Statistics
• Civil Partnerships
• Health, Work and Well Being and Vocational Rehabilitation

Responsible for:
• Disability Legislation
• Disability Rights Commission/Single Equality Body
• Remploy/Workstep/Supported Employment
• Access to Work
• Independent Living Funds
• Vaccine Damage Payments
• Carers Issues/ Long Term Care
• Carers' Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance/Attendance Allowance
• Motability/ SVF (Specialised Vehicles Fund)
• DWP input to Veterans' Taskforce
• Civil Partnerships
• Departmental Management Issues

She leads in the Commons on:
• Health and Safety Executive/Commission including Employer's
• Liability Compulsory Insurance, Occupational Health and
• Sickness Absence
• Human Rights
• Freedom of Information
• Appeals and Adjudication
• Maternity and Paternity pay

Responsible for:
• Housing Benefit
• Council Tax Benefit
• Bereavement Benefit
• Income Support (Working Age)
• Jobseekers Allowance
• Students
• International Relations
• European Union Business
• Social Fund
• European Social Fund
• Debt Management Policy
• Fraud and Error
• Methods of Payment Reform
• The Euro
• Better Buildings
• Benefit Simplification
• Adult Basic Skills
• Habitual Residency Test
• National Insurance Numbers (NINOs)
• Support on Pensions Legislation
• Correspondence Champion
• Social Security Advisory Committee

He leads in the Commons on:
• Child Support Agency
• Departmental Green Issues

You can contact Ministers either by writing to them at the following address:
Department for Work and Pensions, Richmond House 79 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2NS.

LAW AND BENEFIT REVIEW

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[part of the 'Disability Matters' & 'Law and Benefit Review' Group]
'for all disability issues’
disability.matters@yahoo.co.uk
www.lawandbenefitreview.co.uk
[01285-861752]
REVIEWS, ARTICLES, COMMENT, UPDATES, LEGISLATION, BENEFITS, PENSIONS, CARING, NHS, BILLS WATCH, ETC.