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Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions

Campaigners describe ‘brazenly discriminatory’ practices around funding from NHS care boards UK politics live – latest updates Disabled people must have a guaranteed right to travel abroad, MPs and peers have said, as further cases emerged of individuals barred from taking holidays as a result of “ridiculous” rules imposed by local NHS care boards and local councils. Leading figures have called…

Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions

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