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After completing our review of the Modern Slavery Act, which the government asked us to undertake, Maria Miller MP, Baroness Butler-Sloss and I have gone on to conduct an inquiry into trafficking for sexual exploitation. As part of our evidence-gathering sessions, we heard from representatives from immigration enforcement and Border Force teams. What they told us was shocking and leads me to believe that our country risks cases like the awful tragedy of the lorry found in Essex being far from unique

The National Audit Office (NAO) said it would call on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reveal what information it held on the issue, after ministers refused to provide Frank Field MP with figures on the number of people in the welfare system who had taken their own lives.

Frank Field MP blasts DWP after man in ‘appalling’ pain told to give back mobility car

Birkenhead MP Frank Field said the man was denied the crucial ‘mobility element’ of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) despite his serious condition.

Sorry We Missed You is so remarkable. Even though I’ve been exposed to the horrors it depicts, most recently through a series of reports I co-wrote with Andrew Forsey on the gig economy, I found the film deeply shocking and moving. For the many people who’ve never come across these abuses – who don’t realise what is going on in this cruel, exposed underbelly of the labour market – I can’t imagine how they’re going to react. Ken Loach is the great champion of taking us out of our shells and forcing us to ask, of the conveniences we enjoy: “Who is actually paying for this?”

MP Frank Field launches bill demanding equality of justice for all

In 2017 the Globe launched a petition calling for more parking spaces at Arrowe Park Hospital – it was backed by almost 10,000 readers and championed by Birkenhead MP Frank Field.

The independent, formerly Labour, MP for Birkenhead, Frank Field, outlines his plans for a new industrial revolution

Frank has received a response from the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government, inviting Birkenhead to negotiate a new investment deal worth up to £25 million.

Frank Field MP has written to the new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities, and Local Government with a proposal which would see Birkenhead draw down significant investment from the Government’s Stronger Towns Fund.

Frank Field MP today publishes details of the next stage of his campaign to help turbocharge Merseyside’s manufacturing industry and create thousands of new jobs

When a group of Birkenhead residents raised this matter with him, Frank asked the Government to consider extending statutory leave and pay for parents whose baby is admitted to neonatal care by every week their baby stays in hospital. At the time, the Government declined to do so. However, it has now launched a consultation on the scheme with a view to implementing it.

The costs of school uniforms and PE kits for the new term can total many hundreds of pounds.

BIRKENHEAD’S House of Fraser store has been spared the axe once again after a meeting between Frank Field and Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley.

Birkenhead MP Frank Field said: “We are now promised not only 500 homes on brownfield land, in this initial stage, but also large numbers of jobs and apprenticeships and, hopefully, the prospect of many more homes being built in and around that site in the future.”

A free port is an area that is physically within a country but legally outside it for customs purposes. Goods that enter a free port do not incur import duty.

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field is calling on the Government to provide “every bit of support necessary” to Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant after bosses warned it would pull production of cars if Brexit makes it unprofitable.

I recently completed chairing a Government-commissioned review, along with Maria Miller MP and Baroness Butler-Sloss, into the effectiveness of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We looked at the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, transparency in supply chains, independent child trafficking advocates, the legal application of the Act. You can read our reports on www.independentmsareview.co.uk. We did not have an opportunity, however, to look at trafficking for sexual exploitation, so we are undertaking an inquiry into this issue now.

UNIVERSAL CREDIT needs to “come with a health warning”, Frank Field MP has said. The Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee made the comment as the committee’s latest report on the welfare reform was published.

During last year’s Summer Holiday, the Feeding Birkenhead, Supporting Wirral network served 10,000 meals and laid on a range of enriching activities for 888 children across the town. This year’s programme is even bigger and is likely to help even more children.

Heidi Allen MP and Frank Field MP are presenting to Parliament a bill which offers guaranteed weekly hours to workers on zero-hours contracts.

MPs Heidi Allen and Frank Field set out today the beginnings of a reform programme which will take an axe to the root causes of destitution in this country.

Heidi Allen and Frank Field say families haunted by ‘constant spectre of destitution’

Austerity has undermined a century’s work to protect the most vulnerable in our society. The next prime minister must adopt a programme of urgent reform to tackle this destitution, write Frank Field and Heidi Allen

The announcement of new capital funding to help three Birkenhead schools provide high-quality nursery places for two-, three- and four-year-olds in the town, has been welcomed by Frank Field MP.

The man’s case was raised by Frank Field, the MP for Birkenhead, who told the House of Commons that he had already asked Ms Rudd for an inquiry.