our next guest attended this week's debate on personal and about abatements ruth george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back you are going underground so we heard a little earlier from some of those affected by these disability tests conducted by private contractors who are paid cogs on the show apparently created a debate in parliament about this what are you hearing from your constituents about disability testing absolutely i think all them pays a hearing from their constituents about disability testing we get in cases through often every week. particularly after i was first elected i agreed to meet with a group of women who were survivors of sexual violence and abuse who wanted to tell me about how the benefit system had affected them on a member of the work and pensions select committee so they wanted me to be able to take that very harrowing evidence and try and use it change the systems that they're finding because so many assessments and not allowed to be done as a home assessment then people have to travel often consid

our next guest attended this week's debate on personal and about abatements ruth george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back to you are going underground so we heard a little earlier from some of those affected by these disability tests conducted by private contractors or big logs on the show about it we created a debate in parliament about this what are you hearing from your constituents about disability testing absolutely i think all them pays a hearing from their constituents about disability testing we're getting cases through often every week. particularly after i was first elected i agreed to meet with a group of women who were survivors of sexual violence and abuse who wanted to tell me about how the benefit system had affected their i'm a member of the work and pensions select committee so they wanted me to be able to take that very harrowing evidence and try and use it change the systems that they're finding because so many assessments are not allowed to be done as a home assessment then people have to travel often co

our next guest attended this week's debate on personal and about abatements ruth george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back to you are going underground so we heard a little earlier from some of those affected by these disability tests conducted by private contractors or appeared on the show apparently created a debate in parliament about this what are you hearing from your constituents about disability testing absolutely i think all them pays a hearing from their constituents about disability testing we're getting cases through often every week. particularly after i was first elected i agreed to meet with a group of women who were survivors of sexual violence and abuse who wanted to tell me about how the benefits system had affected their i'm a member of the work and pensions select committee so they wanted me to be able to take that very harrowing evidence and try and use it change the systems but they're finding that because so many assessments are not allowed to be done as a home assessment then people have to travel ofte