ADHD benefit claims and political updates

This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Tuesday, the seventh of July. The FA may appeal the red card for the England defender Gerl Kwaner in their World Cup match against Mexico, citing the precedent set by FIFA in lifting the suspension of the USA's following balligon President Trump admitted he personally intervened in the Balagun case and asked FIFA's president Serjani Infantanino to review his one match ban. Speaking to Times Radio, the former executive director of the FA David Davis, said an extraordinary precedence had been set. mister Infantino has said that how he regularly speaks to heads of state Well, I'm not sure he regularly speaks to heads of state in the middle of a high profile World Cup Things do happen, but this is extraordinary Inident and precedent The USA, with Balagun and their team were subsequently beaten for one by Belgium. They will now place Spain in the quarter finals after their wand little defeat of Portugal. More than a hundred thousand people with ADHD are being paid disability benefits without any requirement to look for work. Of all those claiming personal independent payments for the condition, around four in ten are receiving the top rate of daily living and mobility allowances Worth up to one hundred and ninety four pounds a week. The Times political reporter Daisy Eastlake says the figures show an increase of forty percent in ADHD claimants in the two years since labour came to power. The government has approved forty new personal independence payments in which ADHD is cited as the main condition every day on average in the two years since the election The increase is being driven by a surge in young people claiming disability benefits because of mental health conditions More than half of those people claiming for ADHD are between sixteen and twenty four years old The governments say they inherited a broken welfare system and are fixing it. And for Stehen Times, the disability Minister is due to publish an interim report later this week Sakkir Starmer will arrive in the Turkish capital, Ankara later for his final NATO summit amid questions over the UK's plans to increase defense spending. Downing Street said the government remains committed to NATO's targets, adding the Prime Minister would make clear that the UK's contribution to the alliance will not waver in the face of a new era of threat And Arthur Ferry says he'll cherish his achievements of reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon for the rest of his life after beating the former world number three Grigor Dimitrov in five sets on Centrecourt. Fery, who's ranked one hundred and fourteen in the world needed a wildcard to secure his place in the main drawer But is now guaranteed prize money of at least four hundred eighty thousand pounds for his efforts so far. He'll play the ninth seat Flavio Caboli of Italy tomorrow for a place in the semifinals, an opponents he beat in the first round of the Australian openp in January. It's going to be a good match regardless, I'm expecting it to be very very difficult different to Australia I'm sure he's going to be a hundred percent of his capacities which maybe he wasn't quite one hundred percent in Australia, but yeah, I played really well in Australia. I dominated the match, so we'll use that experience for Wednesday There's more on these stories throughout the day on Simes Radio.