Safe, Reliable and Affordable?

There is a case for Motability to buy only vehicles that had been manufactured in the United Kingdom, but show me a PIP claimant who had been bought a BMW or a Mercedes on Motability.

And how many more times? PIP is an in-work benefit. You do not get it for having a specific condition, but for how your conditions affect your life. You most certainly cannot self-certify onto it. By giving money to people who spend it, PIP stimulates our consumer economy, as sickness and disability benefits in general do, as the triple lock does, and as the lifting of the two-child benefit cap would, all while declaring the social and cultural value of the direct beneficiaries.

You may have constipation, or tennis elbow, or whatever, while also on Motability, and that would of course be listed among your conditions on the paperwork, since you had it. But nothing like that could be grounds for the award. The cost of leasing your vehicle is deducted from your PIP, costing the State not one penny piece more than you would in any case have received. If you did put that towards a "premium" car, then you yourself would have to pay the difference. For a vehicle that you still would not own.

Without Motability, far fewer physically disabled people would be able to work. Motability buys, and then owns, one in five new cars purchased in this country, which also translates into a lot of people's jobs. Some of those people are on PIP. Since PIP is an in-work benefit.