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ESA migration drop outs

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lettter from Sheila Gilmore, Labour MP for Edinburgh East and Member of Work and Pensions Select Committee in response to story in the Sunday Telegraph -

’ In the Sunday Telegraph on 30 March 2013 Patrick Hennessy wrote an article entitled ‘900,000 choose to come off sickness benefit ahead of tests’, apparently inspired by some figures from Tory Chairman Grant Shapps. The headline and the subsequent story are fundamentally misleading because they conflate two related but separate processes .... ‘

contd @ http://www.sheilagilmore.co.uk/letter-to-the-sunday-telegraph-on-esa-migration-drop-outs/