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The Chancellor offered no hope today to victims of a cruel disability benefit cut despite pleas from his own party. Philip Hammond did not mention once the £30-a-week cuts to Employment and Support Allowance as he revealed spiralling national debt in his Autumn Statement. Tory backbenchers had...

Atos, the controversial outsourcing company, is facing a government review of all of its major Whitehall contracts, which amount to more than £500m, following another serious IT failure. The Cabinet Office told the Guardian it would undertake a full re-examination of every contract worth more...

David Cameron is facing calls from Tory MPs to rethink a cut to disability benefits before government plans to reinstate the change blocked by the House of Lords. Several Conservatives plan to speak out against the £30-a-week cut to employment support allowance (ESA) for those capable of...

Disability benefit assessments have doubled in cost to £579m a year but targets are still being missed, the National Audit Office has said. The spending watchdog found the quality of the tests was also not improving despite more being done face-to-face. Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the...