John Pring

All these kind of things are really, really important. And that's what PIP is there for.

All these kind of things are really, really important. And that's what PIP is there for.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, without doubt. Because otherwise we're going to be doomed to repeat what has happened over the last 30 years. And there are two big waves of DWP reforms coming up. There's going to be an employment white paper coming up in the autumn, and then there's going to be a disability benefits paper coming up in the spring. For one thing, the MPs don't know the past history.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, without doubt. Because otherwise we're going to be doomed to repeat what has happened over the last 30 years. And there are two big waves of DWP reforms coming up. There's going to be an employment white paper coming up in the autumn, and then there's going to be a disability benefits paper coming up in the spring. For one thing, the MPs don't know the past history.

So if the MPs voting on these measures don't know the past history, then how can they judge whether these measures are going to be helpful or not? And that's why we've been... trying to, and some brilliant activists did it crowdfunded to get a copy of my book to every MP in the House of Commons. Hopefully some of them will read it.

So if the MPs voting on these measures don't know the past history, then how can they judge whether these measures are going to be helpful or not? And that's why we've been... trying to, and some brilliant activists did it crowdfunded to get a copy of my book to every MP in the House of Commons. Hopefully some of them will read it.

I've got something interesting on this. Something I dug up in the National Archives from, I think it was the early 2000s, maybe. At that point, they were talking about tribunal cases, I think, that were coming down on the side of claimants about 50% of the time. And they said at the time, well, yeah, 50%, we're comfortable with that. But if it ever got to 70%, then I...

I've got something interesting on this. Something I dug up in the National Archives from, I think it was the early 2000s, maybe. At that point, they were talking about tribunal cases, I think, that were coming down on the side of claimants about 50% of the time. And they said at the time, well, yeah, 50%, we're comfortable with that. But if it ever got to 70%, then I...

I think, you know, we would have a problem and we would need to do something about it. But it has got to 70% in the 2010s. And recently, I think it's that right, Caroline, that some of the tribunal, the percentage of cases taken to tribunal by benefit claimants appealing against those benefit decisions, it's got to about 70%.

I think, you know, we would have a problem and we would need to do something about it. But it has got to 70% in the 2010s. And recently, I think it's that right, Caroline, that some of the tribunal, the percentage of cases taken to tribunal by benefit claimants appealing against those benefit decisions, it's got to about 70%.