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MPs and campaigners have urged the Government to go further in reforming benefits for disabled people after ministers published their response to a major review.

Frank Field, Labour MP and chair of the pensions committee, said the government should introduce a short bill in which it guaranteed workers basic rights and paved the way for further legislation on more complex matters in future.

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field is spearheading a fresh inquiry into benefit sanctions amid warnings of troubling cases and extreme harm being caused to disabled people.

Frank Field, the MP who came up with the idea of the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy, an initiative to preserve forests in Commonwealth countries, said: “I think it is a rather good idea. If she is not going to get it on that record — given the special nature of the Commonwealth, which could be such a force for peaceful change — then who would?”

Premier League clubs will face government pressure to pay the living wage to all their staff, including casual and contract workers, after a campaign by the Labour MP Frank Field and others

Sarah Wollaston co-ordinated the letter with fellow select committee chairmen Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb and Labour’s Frank Field

More than 440,000 people have languished beyond 18 weeks waiting for vital surgery in breach of government targets, figures reveal. The NHS says all patients have the right to start treatment within 18 weeks of a GP referral.

Labour MP Frank Field said the cuts jarred with Theresa May’s oft-repeated commitment to eradicating slavery in Britain and protecting vulnerable victims.

The explosive comments have come from Birkenhead MP Frank Field after the hospital found itself at the centre of a bullying scandal involving A&E nurses.