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http://www.directenquiries.com is a website from The Nationwide Access Register in partnership with RADAR, to cover accessible businesses.

10 Downing Street Petition on the DLA review can be found at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/DLA-Review. It's closed now. . A forum by the author of the petition can be found by clicking here.

The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board, http://www.dlaab.org.uk/index.asp, is a non-departmental public body. Advising the Secretary of State for the Department for Work & Pensions. The "Special Rules" review is based on their report. The report can be found here.

UK Government Disabled Website is http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/index.htm 

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has various webpages covering benefit issues. The service you need is the Pension, Disability and Carers Service, launched on the 1st April 2008.  If you want to keep up to date on News from the Disability and Carers Service you can do so by clicking here.

DWP & medical guidance.

The DWP has guidance for HIV/AIDS on its own website - http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/med_conditions/hiv-aids/.

This covers to whom the should request medical reports from as well as the most disabling conditions. You should read the whole section as it is useful.

There is an All-Party Parliamentary Groups on AIDS.

Click here for the current list of Ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions.

The Work and Pensions Select committee scruitinises the DWP.

The DWP Disability & Carers Service (DCS) is found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/.

The list of member groups to the DCS can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/member_groups.asp.
 

Details on the "Special Rules" exercise can be found at 

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/news.asp.

Direct payments. 

"Direct payments are cash payments made to individuals who have been assessed as needing services, in lieu of social service provisions." You can find more on this on the Department of Health website.
 

Don't know who your Member of Parliament (MP) is. Find out at http://theyworkforyou.com

Add If you need a sample letter to write to your MP click here

Local Councils websites can be found by clicking here. 

If you have a car on Motability (click on logo on the left handside, to go to their website).