To understand the Government's policy on benefits for disabled people we need to look wider than the rather dull domain of the Department of Social Security (DSS). In 1997 the Prime Minister set out the Government's public expenditure priorities and they were, to coin a phrase "Education, education, education". More recently health has been elevated to a comparable status with an additional £43 billion allocated in the 2000 Comprehensive Spending Review.
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