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Disabled people don't face a "hostile environment" and MPs should all stop saying so, a Tory minister has demanded.

MPs shouted their fury as Sarah Newton made the shameless claim in the Commons - despite more than 100,000 people winning appeals to get disability benefit PIP.

Since PIP launched in 2013, benefit changes have also forced more than 75,000 people to give up their specially-adapted Motability cars.

Shadow Disabilities Minister Marsha De Cordova said the UN had found "grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights” in the UK.

The Labour MP added today: "This government’s policies have created a hostile environment causing grave violations on disabled people."

But Ms Newton suggested people losing their cars should complain to the Motability charity - not the government.

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The Tory minister said: "We have very strong protections for people with disabilities in our country.

"I honestly ask all members opposite, please do not use this language of hostile environment. It is simply not the case.

"And the very people that need all of our support are put off from seeking it and coming forward.

"Really, I would ask them to stop saying things which they know are not true."

It came despite an MP warning a constituent was forced to borrow thousands of pounds when she lost her Motability car because the DWP cut her benefits.

She obtained a new car - only for the DWP to reverse its decision and give her benefits back.

Yvette Cooper said: "Frankly it is outrageous that she should lose all of her savings because the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) screwed up."

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Yet Ms Newton tried to blame the problem on Motability - not the DWP.

She told MPs: "If any member has a constituent that’s facing losing their Motability car, I suggest they call Motability.

"Motability are sitting on very very considerable reserves.

"They are a charity, and they are able to make discretionary payments to enable people to keep their cars while they’re going through appeal."

MPs have previously slammed £2.4billion in reserves and bumper pay of up to £1.7million at the charity's parent firm.

But Motability Operations chair Neil Johnson insisted much of the £2.4billion 'reserves' were not reserves at all because they were locked up in cars.

"There’s not a bank account sitting there with £2.4billion in it," he said.

Mr Betts added: "We buy and sell 650 cars a day, 7 days a week.

"That means we’re turning over £14million a day and if that starts to go wrong that can very quickly start to escalate into something quite bad.”