Row after only welfare cuts event in Wales cancelled

A disability people's rights group has hit out after the UK government cancelled the only in-person event it had planned in Wales to gather views on its benefit cutting plans.

Ministers are consulting on reforms to disability benefits, which could affect almost 190,000 people in Wales.

Disability Wales said the cancellation of the event in Cardiff "silences disabled people across Wales – those who would be most affected".

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the views and voices of sick and disabled people "are at the heart of our reforms".

It said it was seeking to rearrange the meeting – an email seen by the BBC said the DWP was arranging a new Wales-only event for the end of June.