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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-gb"><title>The Disability Challenge</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/atom/index.jsp" rel="self"/><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/index.jsp" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><subtitle>the Conservative Party's disability website</subtitle><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/</id><generator>ws.politicos.justin.2005</generator><rights>Except for national news and the constituency maps, the text and photographs on this site are released under Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 United Kingdom.</rights><updated>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated><entry><title>Harper calls for annual disability debate in Parliament</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=387" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=387</id><published>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Shadow Minister for Disabled People presses Government for yearly debate on Disability.</summary></entry><entry><title>Harper welcomes move on tribunal guidance</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=389" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=389</id><published>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Announcement that Tribunal Service will be given proper guidelines for cases involving learning disabilities is welcomed.</summary></entry><entry><title>Harper attends launch of Livability's 'Freedom to Live' campaign</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=390" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=390</id><published>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Shadow Minister for Disabled People attends Livability's debute campaign.</summary></entry><entry><title>Rod licence hike hits disabled people</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=388" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=388</id><published>2008-05-06T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-06T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>The cost of concessionary rod licences for disabled people has rocketed by an unprecedented 35% - over £10 for salmon licences, while full licences are only rising by about 2%, figures released to Mark Harper, Shadow Minister for Disabled People have show</summary></entry><entry><title>Harper gets British Sign Language taster</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=384" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=384</id><published>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper MP, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People, has attended a short course on British Sign Language (BSL) </summary></entry><entry><title>Harper visits the Children's Trust, Tadworth</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=385" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=385</id><published>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper MP, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People, visited the Childrens Trust, a national charity working with disabled children, on Tuesday, 18th March.</summary></entry><entry><title>Ambitious plans will unlock potential, Harper tells conference</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=386" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=386</id><published>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-04-07T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Our proposals are an ambitious attempt to unlock potential Mark Harper MP Shadow Minister for Disabled People, told delegates to the Surrey Supported Employment Seminar recently.</summary></entry><entry><title>Harper attends RADAR reception</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=381" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=381</id><published>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People recently attended a reception held by RADAR, the national charity for disabled people. </summary></entry><entry><title>Harper attends Beginings Spring Event</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=382" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=382</id><published>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-31T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper MP, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People, attended the Beginnings spring event</summary></entry><entry><title>Mark meets Polish Minister for Disabled People</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=380" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=380</id><published>2008-03-21T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-21T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, welcomed the Polish Minister for Disabled People, Jaroslaw Duda MP, to Parliament for an in depth discussion about policies that affect disabled people here and in Poland yesterday.  </summary></entry><entry><title>Mark Harper MP, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, responds to the launch of the Independent Living Strategy (Video)</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=379" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=379</id><published>2008-03-17T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-17T00:00:00Z</updated></entry><entry><title>Emerson Park  greets Shadow Minister</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=383" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=383</id><published>2008-03-15T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-15T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>The Shadow Minister for Disabled People cheerson the Emerson Park Cerebral Palsy Spurs FC team in action against an Irish team on a visit to their school.</summary></entry><entry><title>Disability LIB Alliance Launch</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=378" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=378</id><published>2008-03-06T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-06T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People, has welcomed the launch of Disability LIB (Listen, Include, Build), UKs first capacity-building alliance led by disabled people.</summary></entry><entry><title>Independent Living Strategy is welcome, but only small step forward</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=375" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=375</id><published>2008-03-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-03T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper, Shadow Minister for Disabled People, has commented on todays publication of the Independent Living Strategy. </summary></entry><entry><title>Harper welcomes lifting of the UKSG ban</title><link href="http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=377" type="text/html" rel="alternate"/><author><name>Annabel Warner</name><email>WARNERA@parliament.uk</email></author><id>http://www.thedisabilitychallenge.com/record.jsp?type=news&amp;ID=377</id><published>2008-03-03T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-03-03T00:00:00Z</updated><summary>Mark Harper, the Shadow Minister for Disabled People, has welcomed the lifting of the ban preventing young children with learning difficulties taking part in the UK School Games</summary></entry></feed>