Potemkin legislation

There is a mismatch between Government announcements and Commons realities. It cannot attempt reforms without risking them being amended out of recognition.

Mark Harper: Social care. Let’s halve the disability employment gap.

The Government should get on with publishing the promised Green paper and return to the pledge in our winning 2015 election manifesto.

New measures to support disabled people. Rudd’s speech on reform – full text.

“So I will be reviewing our goal to get one million more disabled people in work by 2027. We can do more, and I want to set a new and more ambitious goal.”

Andy Street: In the West Midlands, inclusion is more than a buzzword. It’s turning our diversity into a strength.

It is a sad and all-too-obvious fact that most of the decision makers I meet in my role as Mayor are people who look like me.

How to measure – and vanquish – poverty? A new answer to an old problem.

Philippa Stroud’s new Social Metrics Commission hopes to bring light to murky statistical waters. But can numbers ever truly neutralise politics?

Robert Halfon: Grab the wheel, Hancock – and pull the brake on these hospital car parking charges

They are a stealth tax on the sick, the vulnerable, on families, and our hard-working NHS employees. And nearly 50 per cent of hospitals charge blue-badge holders.

Penny Mordaunt: We will get stick from the Corbynistas. And from the small-minded. But we are backing this move to support disabled people none the less.

We believe in freedom – which is why we’ve initiated this Global Disability Summit.

Chris Skidmore: How the Conservative Party’s new Policy Commission will work

Five task forces cover energising our economy, transforming our public services, building a fairer society, sustaining our democracy and shaping a Global Britain.

Britain and abortion. Women are more likely to support new restrictions.

It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.

Robert Halfon: Ministers should value the Open University no less than Oxbridge. And the latter should open up to apprenticeships.

What is the objective of higher education if it does not play a major role in addressing our country’s skills deficit?

Miles Holder: What the Conservatives should do next to help support people with autism

Recommendations in a report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism are well worth Ministers and others taking up.

Rishi Sunak: How to ensure that disabled children can enjoy a day out with their families

Standard disabled toilets are not enough to make important venues and attractions open to all. The Government must push for more Changing Places.

Khan attacked by Labour councillors for cuts to Taxicard funding

The proposal is criticised for hitting the vulnerable and breaking an election pledge. Local transport schemes are also being hit.

Interview with Rosa Monckton. How the minimum wage helps keep 93 per cent of people with learning difficulties unemployed

The businesswoman, whose daughter Domenica has Down’s Syndrome, says that the disabled should be welcomed into the world of work.

Reconstructing May 1) She won’t win the battle for the future if Corbyn defines the battles of the past.

The Prime Minister has a long story of progressive toryism to tell. Moral authority must not be conceded to Labour.