SNP Disabled Members Group

Disabled Members’ Meeting in the Assisted Dying Bill Date: Tuesday 22nd October 2025 Time: 6:30pm Where: Online - a link will be provided nearer the time Ask Questions & Share your views with elected members

This is your chance for your voice to be heard by elected members in regards to this bill.

Please contact us via email if you an SNP Member and are intrerested in attending this meeting via snpdmg74@gmail.com

If you are not an SNP Member, please contact your elected members to express your views

Disabled SNP Members Discussion on Assisted Dying Bill Date: Tuesday 16th September 2025 Time 6:30 PM Location: Online. Link to the meeting will be provided to members closer to the time Ask Questions & Share your views with elected members

This is your chance for your voice to be heard by elected members in regards to this bill.

Please contact us via email if you an SNP Member and are intrerested in attending this meeting via snpdmg74@gmail.com

If you are not an SNP Member, please contact your elected members to express your views

The PIP and UC bill is an attack on disabled people.

I will be voting against the bill today to make clear disabled people matter and that I recognise the additional costs of navigating a world built for neurotypical, healthy people.

Everyone at the SNP DMG is devasted to hear of passing of Christina. She was a political force of nature and a true friend and ally to the disabled community.

#FNDAwarenessDayUK where we facilitate activities to raise much needed awareness of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and encourage you all to get involved.

To find out more please visit
www.fndaction.org.uk/informthedoc...

#Voices4FND
#InformTheDoctor

Home SLW 2025 - Sign Language Week 17 - 23 March 2025Sign Language Week More than a language: culture, community and belonging Sign Language Week is a flagship awareness week for British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, celebrate...

Happy #SignLanguageWeek!

This year is about #TakingBSLForward civil rights movement. The week serves as a crucial opportunity to garner support for our mission and act as a platform to launch our 'Early Years’ position statement.

Find out more signlanguageweek.org.uk

Scotland deserves better

Westminster keeps failing disabled people. Scotland should have full control over benefits, so we can make a fairer system.

We demand that Labour stop these cuts now!

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The SNP says NO to these cuts

Disabled people are not a burden. Their rights and dignity must be protected. The SNP will fight against these cuts every step of the way.

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We stand with disabled people

The SNP Disabled Members Group supports charities and organisations fighting these cuts. We agree with Scope, Disability Rights UK, Mind, and Citizens Advice that these cuts are unfair. Disabled people should be at the centre of decisions about benefits—not ignored.
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Labour promised no cuts – but they are cutting anyway

Before the election, Labour said they would not cut benefits. Now they are making huge cuts that hurt disabled people the most. Some Labour MPs are even supporting these cuts, which will hurt people in their own communities.

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Why is this bad?

Disabled people already face many challenges in life. Many cannot work or need extra support to live independently. Cutting benefits will not help people into work. It will only make life harder.

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What is happening?

Labour wants to change benefits for disabled people. They plan to make it harder to get Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit for disabled people - 700,000 disabled people could be pushed into poverty because of these cuts.

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SNP Disabled Members Group Statement on Labour’s £6bn Welfare Cuts The SNP Disabled Members Group strongly condemns the British Labour government’s decision to impose £6 billion in welfare cuts, targeting some of the most vulnerable people in our society. These cuts represent an outright betrayal of disabled people and expose the devastating impact of Westminster’s austerity politics. Disabled people across the UK already face significant barriers to employment, financial security, and basic dignity. Life costs more for disabled people. Cutting essential disability benefits like Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) element of Universal Credit will push hundreds of thousands further into poverty, with Scope’s analysis warning that 700,000 more disabled households could be affected. These proposals are not only cruel but counterproductive, punishing those who need support rather than addressing systemic barriers to work and wellbeing.

Labour’s decision to follow in the footsteps of previous Tory governments by targeting disabled people for austerity is disgraceful. During the election, Labour claimed there would be “no austerity” under their leadership—yet, within weeks of taking power, they have launched a full-scale attack on those who can least afford it. Scottish Labour MPs cheering on these cuts should be ashamed, as they are directly harming their own constituents. The SNP Disabled Members Group stands firmly with disabled people and their allies in opposing these devastating cuts. We fully support the coalition of disability organisations—including Scope, Disability Rights UK, Mind, and Citizens Advice—that have written to the Chancellor urging the government to rethink its approach. We echo their call: the needs and voices of disabled people must be at the heart of welfare reform, not an afterthought.

It is a political choice to cut benefits for disabled people while maintaining Tory fiscal rules, increasing National Insurance, and scrapping essential supports like the Winter Fuel Payment. Disabled people are not an economic burden—our rights and dignity should never be up for debate. Westminster’s continued failure to support disabled people reinforces the urgent need for Scotland to have full control over social security, so we can build a system based on fairness, dignity, and respect. We urge the Labour government to immediately abandon these disastrous plans. Anything less is a betrayal of the very people they claim to represent. SNP Disabled Members Group SNP DIsabled Members Convener SNP National Equalities Convener

🧵 Labour’s Cuts Hurt Disabled People

The SNP Disabled Members Group is very unhappy about the British Labour government’s plan to cut £6 billion from welfare benefits.

These cuts will hurt disabled people the most. Many disabled people already struggle to afford food, heating, and basic needs
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Happy International Women's Day!

#IWD2025 is about #AccelerateAction and #genderequality in all its forms; Fighting for Women's Rights, reinforcing key commitments and more

To read more about this year's theme please visit www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme

The Fund has been operating since 2016 on a non-statutory basis. The effect will be to ensure that the Fund continues to support disabled candidates to stand for election in Scottish Parliament and local government elections as long as the provision remains in force.

Here's to the Access to Elected Office Fund Scotland. 👏

It’s great to see Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 under Section 46 - ‘Acess to Elected Office Fund’

142. This section puts the Access to Elected Office Fund on a statutory footing.

⭐ Congratulations ⭐ to the people at Inclusion Scotland ⿮ delivered it successfully and with a bunch of disabled activists across multiple parties that crucially contributed to the process, has now officially been embedded in law on a statutory basis.

www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/4/n...

#RareDiseaseDay provides an opportunity to advocate for rare diseases as a human rights priority at local, national, and international levels, promoting a more inclusive society.

Visit www.rarediseaseday.org today to find out how you can get involved to help raise awareness

72% of rare diseases are genetic, whilst others are the result of infections (bacterial or viral), allergies and environmental causes or are rare cancers.

Internatrional collaboration in reseach is vital to connect researchers and clinicians, ensuring progress in diagnosis, treatment, and care.

There are 600+ identified rare diseases and due to the wide diversity of rare diseases, and the presence of relatively common symptoms that can mask underlying ones, misdiagnosis is common.

Symptoms not only vary between different diseases but can also differ between people with the same ones

Rare Diseases currently affect about 5% of the worldwide population.

The need for high-quality, specialised healhcare creates inequalities and barriers to accessing rare disease treatment and care, therefore it is important that we do what we can to raise awareness and help remove these barriers

Today is #RareDiseaseDay

Over 300 million people worldwide live with a rare disease and they face many challenges.

The lack of scientific knowledge and reliable information on them often leads to delays in diagnosis.

Inclusion Scotland is running a survey to understand LGBTQIA+ disabled people's experiences with health and social care services.

If you would like to take part please email research@inclusionscotland.org

Equality network has posted about it

Shona Robison: “While the UK Gov't has frozen all income tax thresholds, in Scotland, the basic and intermediate rate thresholds will increase this year by 3.5%.

This means the majority of taxpayers in Scotland will continue to pay less income tax than in the rest of the UK.”

📣 Eradicating child poverty is the Scottish Government's top priority.

🥀 But when Labour came into power in Westminster, they kept the brutal two-child cap.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Our budget will end it in Scotland, lifting over 15,000 Scottish children out of poverty.

❄️ Our Budget brings in a Winter Heating Payment next winter for pensioners, to fix Labour's mess.

💷 £100 for every pensioner household.

📈 £200-300 for those receiving Pension Credits, depending on age.

International Day of People with Disabilities | About the Movement International Day of People with Disabilities (IDPWD) is a United Nations sanctioned day that is celebrated internationally on 3 December.

We therefore invite everyone across Scotland to both celebrate the progress we have made, and learn what additional progress we need to ensure full equality and participation of disabled people in politics and wider society.

You can find out more here: idpwd.org/about/

#SNPDMG
#IDPWD2024

As the SNP’s Disabled Members Group, we are committed to ensuring disabled people are able to participate in politics and thus the decisions that shape our future.

This year’s theme is “amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future”.

The 3rd December is International Day of People with Disabilities.

This is a day to celebrate diversity, learn about disabled experiences, and look optimistically to a future where disabled people are valued.