SIR — The Government removal of funding for Remploy factories is bad for everyone who is disabled.

Why are disabled people being thrown onto the scrapheap when they can produce goods just as well as those who are able-bodied ?

Remploy has given many disabled people not just a chance to earn a living but a vocation, and the Government has a lot to answer for.

People need to know how hard it is for people with disabilities to get jobs.

My husband Steven, who has featured in your newspaper before, is a carpenter and joiner by trade and is also deaf, and he has been trying for a year or more.

He went to the St Loye's Foundation in Exeter to help him get into work and they they have helped him to get on a digger course which we are hoping that he passes.

Without St Loye's he would have nothing, and now the Government is trying to take away Remploy away from people.

Mrs Tracy Heard,