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The government’s green paper on social care must form the basis of a longer-term funding settlement for the welfare state: a “strategic welfare review”, drawing lessons from the established strategic defence review.

Committee of MPs says benefit ‘designed with little regard’ for sixth of UK workforce

The aim of the bill I am drafting with Sir Nicholas SOAMES is to place the abolition of long-term unemployment at the heart of a post-Brexit reform agenda. It would do so by introducing a new duty under which the government guarantees six months’ paid work in the private, voluntary or public sector, for people who either have joined or are at risk of joining the ranks of the long-term unemployed.

The Universal Credit scheme has become an “agent of destitution”, Labour MP Frank Field warns today.

HMRC is considering the claims made by a whistleblower to Frank Field MP

Over a half of all MPs have already agreed to link their constituency with the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy (QCC). Each MP will receive a tree from the Woodland Trust, supported by Sainsbury’s, to plant in their constituency. The trees will be sent to be planted in October this year. 363 down, only 287 to go.

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?”

Ideas around the creation of share-bloc-owning foundations with the role of protecting those different interests, and the power to block takeovers, should be looked at urgently. The work and pensions select committee will begin this exercise from the angle of pensioners.

Now in its third year of operation, the programme will deliver more than 60 sessions across the town to ensure children are able to eat well and remain active over the Spring Break.

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field is fighting to save the jobs of 98 people on fixed-term contracts at the benefits office in Hordan House, who have reportedly been told by their bosses that they will be out of work in a year’s time.

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field is calling for an immediate extension by Wirral Council of its Selective Licensing scheme to tackle slum housing conditions.

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

A fourfold revolution in the national insurance system is required to meet both the immediate and the longer-term funding challenge.

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.

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field has discovered that almost a quarter of patients waiting for planned treatment at Arrowe Park have been on the waiting list for longer than 18 weeks.

‘At last we have a proper soul-searching report on Arrowe Park which has been many a year coming. I’ve been campaigning for years for root and branch reform at the hospital.’

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field has obtained official data showing how boys from poorer homes are falling behind their classmates in their GCSE exams.

The stance has been condemned by Frank Field, the chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, who highlighted the appalling distress that sanctions are still causing.

Wirral South MP Alison McGovern and Birkenhead MP Frank Field met up with the Under Secretary of State for Health Lord O’Shaughnessy to talk about Lucy Moroney and Edie Molyneux who have both been diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) – a rare and inoperable brain tumour.

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.

Longstanding Labour MP Frank Field told the Press Association that many faced the desperate choice of destitution or returning to petty crime.

Frank Field, the chairman of the work and pensions select committee, said: “When people turn to the benefits system for help, after having hit rock bottom, they desperately need for their income to be sorted out as quickly as possible.

Birkenhead MP Frank Field said: “An idea bringing the largest programme of new housing to Wirral in living memory, announced today, is the brainchild of Andrew Forsey who is the head of my Parliamentary office.”