UPDATE: Work and Pensions Committee will question IDS!

96,666 people -- including you -- signed this petition to demand the Work and Pensions Committee to hold Iain Duncan Smith to account for his use of government statistics on welfare. The Committee have announced they would do just that.Iain Duncan Smith will face questions by the Committee over his department's use of statistics in June.

We are really proud that we started this petition. It's often feels like politicians get away with saying whatever they like. By starting this petition we've shown that everyone has the tools to call politicians out if they try to make things up. They can't get away with spinning statistics any longer. Thank you to everyone that signed!

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We are both disabled as well as being disability activists. We experience pain and suffering ourselves and see it in our friends, families and colleagues. It is one thing to live with the physical challenges of a disability. It is quite another to hear lies and misinformation every day from our own government.

We have watched sick and disabled friends fall foul of the Employment and Support Allowance process and seen people who are genuinely sick and disabled being left with next to nothing to live on. Some are living in fear of the Personal Independence Payments assessments to come. In this climate, which is confusing and intimidating for some of the most vulnerable in our society, those in power should be operating to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy. Recent reports suggest that the Work and Pensions Secretary may have misrepresented Government statistics to make a political point.

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