Cabinet Office Strategy

Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People: Governance

The Sponsor Minister for the project was Maria Eagle, Minister for Disabled People (Department for Work and Pensions).

The Sponsor Minister will chair the Project Advisory Group. Members of the Group were:

• Maria Eagle - Chair (Minister for Disabled People, Department for Work and Pensions)
• Baroness Cathy Ashton (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Education and Skills / Department for Work and Pensions)
• Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
• Stephen Ladyman (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health)
• Jane Campbell (Chair, Social Care Institute for Excellence)
• Norman Glass (Director, National Centre for Social Research)
• Christine Lenehan (Director, Council for Disabled Children)
• Bert Massie (Chair , Disability Rights Commission)
• Mark Thompson (Director-General-Designate, BBC)
• Sally Witcher (Chair, Disability Employment Advisory Committee)
• Stephen Aldridge (Strategy Unit)
• Bruce Calderwood (Department for Work and Pensions)
• Gareth Davies (Number 10)
• Ann Frye (Department for Transport)
• Nicholas Holgate (HM Treasury)
• Claire Tyler (Social Exclusion Unit )