A big thank you to all of you who emailed their MP's. We kept the pressure on the Government. Our Petition was debated in the House of Commons on July 21st after Debbie Abrahams called for an "Urgent Question" regarding the release of the statistics that we are calling for. It was a charged debate in which a combative Priti Patel was called arrogant and the Speaker of the House had to call for calm, moderation and good humour after words such as scaremonging and handwringing were used by Priti Patel Five times Priti Patel was asked if the DWP was still going to appeal by five separate MP's, including Dennis Skinner who demanded that the Minister “Stand up at that Dispatch Box and say that you are not going to appeal, and that you are going to get on with it" She was not forth coming and ignored his question, as she did the other four times it was asked. As to the publications date of the stats, she was more than happy to use platitudes like "very soon, shortly, no later than the Autumn, in the Autumn and this data is coming" It is disingenuous for Priti Patel and Iain Duncan Smith to expect us to believe that the stats will be published in the autumn when she wilfully did not state that The DWP's appeal against publication of the "death stats" would be withdrawn. I feel the The Government does not want these stats to be published. I feel that it is because since 2013 this Government has wilfully changed the system of appealing a decision of being found fit for work, leaving, according to a Citizens Advice report, almost 29.000 destitute, without access to sickness benefit, Jobseekers Allowance and the Hardship Fund for period of 8 weeks or more. Read more here: https://mzolobajluk.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/the-comply-or-starve-tactics-from-iain-duncan-smith-and-his-department-of-work-and-pensions/