DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

Errol Graham starved to death in June 2018 after the DWP wrongly stopped his out-of-work disability benefits. Photograph: Handout

More than £50,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on lawyers to try to prevent the release of a safeguarding review ordered after a disabled man starved to death in his own home.

The costs were part of a bill of nearly £1m spent under the last government to prevent the release of various documents under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.