Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Anne Begg (Labour), on Thursday, 26 April 2001, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 65 members in total.

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DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION

That this House congratulates the Disability Rights Commission on a successful first year of activity to 25th April 2001; supports its vision of a society in which all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens; notes that it has established a range of high quality services, such as handling over 50,000 calls to its helpline, including 150 a week from employers and service providers, supporting over 2,000 individual disabled people to resolve issues relating to disability discrimination and arranging or providing representation for 41 disabled people to take cases under the Disability Discrimination Act 1994; and further notes its valuable advice to the Government on major policy and legislative issues.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

611 

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Disability Disability Rights Commission Equality

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk