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In a report published today by Frank Field MP and Andrew Forsey, Deliveroo is presented with a map and compass to help achieve its stated objective of striking a more just balance between flexibility and security for riders working with the company.

TENS of thousands of disabled people denied welfare benefits due to Government error are to receive additional back-payments totalling as much as £150 million.

The full programme of meals and activities for children during the six-week holiday

A community café and citizens’ supermarket is heading to Pyramids Shopping Centre following a partnership with MP Frank Field’s Feeding Birkenhead.

Over 500 MPs are to receive a tree from the Woodland Trust, in partnership with Sainsbury’s, to link their constituency with the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. This campaign, led by Frank Field MP, includes both the Prime Minster and Leader of the Opposition.

New working parties have been set up in a bid to give a new lease of life to the town following House of Fraser becoming the latest casualty to announce its withdrawal. The parties will be made up of local Wirral councillors together with Birkenhead MP Frank Field, who will meet quarterly and “take day-to-day charge of plans to redevelop the town centre.”

Frank Field MP, who chairs the Work and Pensions Committee and previously delivered a scathing report on working conditions at Hermes, said the ruling “ranks among the most substantial judicial interventions ever to support vulnerable workers in this country”.

This latest inquiry will, over the next five weeks, gather evidence from Deliveroo riders in an attempt to supplement the evidence base on the living standards of workers in the ‘gig economy’, as well as the need for any additional safeguards.

The Government was slow in waking up to the fact that our negotiating hand would be significantly strengthened if we had a plan B; a plan for what we would have to do if forced out of the EU without a favourable agreement. The same thinking needs to be applied now that the Brexit legislation implementing the referendum result is being tampered with in the Lords. Here we have a group of peers who have planned for a long time how they can defeat the legislation.

Frank Field, the Labour MP and chair of the parliamentary work and pensions committee, has written to the business secretary, Greg Clark, asking if he would “consider a public inquiry into the extent and consequences” of the practice and if further protection for workers was required.

Birkenhead MP Frank Field has today tabled a tabled a parliamentary question demanding to know what extra resources are to be put in place to help staff affected by the closure of the town’s House of Fraser store. He is also urging the chief executive of the stricken high street chain to consider placing the Birkenhead premises and workforce at the centre of his online shopping strategy, retraining redundant workers to meet the “next stage” of the business’s development.

The “employment guarantee bill” is being spearheaded by Labour’s Frank Field and Conservative Sir Nicholas Soames, and has the backing of a cross-party group of more than 30 MPs.

We need to make a very clear statement that the House of Commons is the superior chamber and that, when we send the Bills back, the Lords will be playing with fire if they send the amendments back again.

The quiet post-war revolution in welfare succeeded by improving the functionality and coverage of the existing system, which went with the grain of the country’s needs. UBI fails that test on every level.

The Labour MP Frank Field, a former welfare minister and veteran anti-poverty campaigner, who obtained the take-up figures through parliamentary questions, said: “Healthy Start vouchers have quietly developed into a key weapon in our armoury to defeat malnutrition. They radically improve poorer families’ diets by increasing their consumption of fruit and vegetables as well as vitamin intake, while simultaneously reducing the pressure on their weekly budgets. As things stand, too many of the most disadvantaged families remain exposed to malnutrition because they are not registered for the scheme.”

Former minister Frank Field spoke of his alarm that multiple problems with the roll-out of the new benefits regime were driving recipients to use food banks.

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In a meeting yesterday that Justin Madders MP led, and at which he was accompanied by Frank Field MP, the MPs asked to be involved in meeting trade unions, car manufacturers, and trade associations in this country and Europe, to encourage the respective negotiators on both sides to secure frictionless trade in the automotive sector, recognising that it is in everyone’s interest for there to be no trade barriers.

It follows years of campaigning in Parliament by Frank Field, the Labour MP, for spare rations to be handed to those in need.

The exodus, uncovered by Labour MP Frank Field, is exacerbating the existing “under-doctoring” of deprived populations – the lack of family doctors in places where poorer people live.

Labour MP Frank Field says workers should be protected by default, and only regarded as self-employed when companies provide proof that they are

David Jago’s proposal is among a series of options in a review of its policy to charge staff £10 to park there after a Globe petition backed by almost 10,000 readers. It was handed over to his predecessor David Allison by Birkenhead MP Frank Field in October.

Today our Work and Pensions committee has published a report on employment support for carers. There are 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK and over half are trying desperately to juggle their caring role with paid employment. It’s tough and certain policies make it even harder.

Same old story. Same old greed. Today our select committees publish our joint report into the collapse of Carillion. It is the culmination of months of public hearings and consideration of mountains of minutes and company papers. That evidence pointed overwhelmingly to our damning assessment of the conduct of Carillion’s directors.

Damning new report reveals the ‘relentless dash for cash’ that left city’s £335m hospital as a ‘creaking monument to greed’

Frank Field, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, said: “A board of directors too busy stuffing their mouths with gold to show any concern for the welfare of their workforce or their pensioners.

EXCLUSIVE: MPs launched a probe tonight into the leaked Atos policy which they fear is an “incentive to ride roughshod over claimants”

Failed government contractor used suppliers to ‘prop up a failing business model’ and conceal true debt, say MPs

Frank Field, the chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, told The Independent: “It seems as though a small army of unemployed young people have fallen through the gaps in the safety net without any official data recording whether they are destitute.”