AN MP cannot of course be aware of what is happening to all his/her constituents, anymore than a prime minister can be expected to know the circumstances of all those in whose names he/she governs.

Yet the death of Mark Wood, (Man starved after benefits were cut, February 28) should certainly now be known to the member for Witney, Prime Minister, David Cameron, pictured, in whose constituency Mr Wood was in effect killed by the actions of Atos and of the DWP. Mark Wood’s GP, Nicholas Ward, told Darren Salter, the Oxfordshire coroner, last week that at the time of his death, aged 44, Mark Wood’s “body mass index was not compatible with life”.

Mark Wood suffered a multitude of medical problems, yet had been getting by on housing benefit, employment support allowance and disability living allowance until Atos visited him briefly at his home in Bampton in January and assessed him fit for work, contrary to what Dr Ward would have told the assessors if they had troubled to read the letter he had written for the attention of Mr Wood’s Jobcentre.

Without telling him, the DWP withdrew housing benefit and employment support allowance, leaving Mark Wood £40 a week in living disability allowance.

Too proud to ask his family for help, as his debts built up Mr Wood starved to death directly as a consequence of the policies of David Cameron and his government.

In his report, presented to Parliament in November 1942, William Beveridge declared: “A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolution.”

We might not be in the midst of a world war but the war against the poor and the needy, casualties mounting, is very much with us.

BRUCE ROSS-SMITH Bowness Avenue Headington Oxford