IN 2012 the Department of Work and Pensions published statistics which showed 10,600 terminally ill and vulnerable people who had been receiving benefits died between January and November 2011.

As if this wasn't bad enough both the perpetrator of these benefits cuts and the DWP who implemented them on behalf of Ian Duncan-Smith are trying to block a freedom of information request as to how many more people have died.

This says two things about this Government, firstly the don't believe in openness and transparency and secondly that they really don't give damn about people and are prepared to let thousands of vulnerable people die in support of an economic policy that attacks the most ill and vulnerable people in society, whilst at the same time failing to collect billions in taxes from high street companies, and failing to ensure that bailout money used to prop up a corrupt banking system is returned to the public coffers.

Steve Jones,

Morris Green