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Frank Field, who investigated the collapse of BHS, has written to the regulator. Field highlights a pension deficit of Northern & Shell Media Group’s scheme

Pension deal leaves staff vulnerable, warns Labour MP

The chair of the Commons work and pensions committee, Frank Field MP, called for the universal credit helpline to be moved to an 0800 number. “The country will be flabbergasted that people without any money at all should be expected to pay for a call to try and gain some help,” he said. The government needed to “iron out difficulties with telephone costs before they blast the poor to bits”.

Labour campaigner Frank Field MP said: “You couldn’t dream up a better way of kicking the poor into destitution.

Frank Field reacts to report that airline owner Greybull Capital could collect ‘bumper profit’ while workers lose out

Coming under fire from both Labour and Tory MPs in the Commons, David Gauke was challenged by former minister Frank Field to promise that no claimant would be left without cash over the festive period – but he failed to do so.

Life chances commission finds that a third of childcare settings in the Liverpool City Region are missing out on vital funding of up to £300 per week for disadvantaged children. Commission announces three moves to counter low take-up

The Government is putting its foot on the accelerator to implement a welfare state where there is, for long periods of time, no adequate safety net

Birkenhead MP Frank Field will personally hand deliver the petition to hospital boss David Allison in a meeting later this month.

Frank Field has written to education secretary Justine Greening to investigate and take steps to protect those on low-incomes. But he is unimpressed with her response and will be tabling questions to parliament.

We had a really good meeting last Friday, at which a number of key Birkenhead councillors relayed to senior police officers how deserted decent citizens feel when they see nothing being done about their reports of crime and antisocial behaviour.

There is a spectre haunting the centre-left in Britain. It comes from commentators who are trying to establish a consensus that we have no new ideas. May I begin the counter offensive with a starter for six?

In yesterday’s letter, Frank Field and Rachel Reeves, chairs of the Work and Pensions and BEIS committees respectively, revealed that accusations have been made by Hermes drivers about high street brands

The Work and Pensions Select Committee is likely to examine a whole series of options to help people with severe disabilities achieve their ambition of gaining, and keeping a job. My preference is for the national living wage to remain sacrosanct, but for employers and the state to combine their efforts into a generous support package.

TfL must give the transport app the chance to improve passenger safety and worker protection

A dangerous gamble has been taken with poorer children’s life chances, according to Frank Field MP, following the first reduction since 2011 in the number of NHS Health Visitors in the North West of England.

Frank Field, Labour MP and chair of the Commons work and pensions select committee, said he had written to Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, to demand answers following concerns raised by a whistleblower at delivery company Hermes.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is being questioned about members losing their benefits under the new British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) by Labour MP Frank Field.

Frank Field released new research which shows families with two earners could be more than £50 a week worse off under UC than on tax credits.

Frank Field MP today estimates that the cost to thousands of Britain’s poorest families of the Government’s refusal to accept the High Court’s recent ruling on the Benefit Cap will surpass £50 million.

Labour MP Frank Field said they “should never have been covered by the cap”.

Labour MP Frank Field believes operators are subsiding free machines in affluent areas with profits from poor neighbourhoods.

Frank Field MP presents to the House of Commons a bill, with the backing of 131 MPs from across the House, to ensure that this summer holiday is the last one in which children go hungry.

I will be issuing a simple rallying cry to the Prime Minister when Parliament returns next week: let us make this the last summer holiday ever in which children in this country are hungry.

In his latest column for the Globe, campaigning Birkenhead MP Frank Field says householders are now despairing at the authorities’ inability to curb anti-social behaviour, and he is calling a ‘summit’ meeting with the borough’s police chief

The veteran Labour MP Frank Field, who is chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on hunger, will present the bill on the first day back from summer recess. It would place a legal duty on local authorities to ensure the provision of free meals and activities.

Frank Field MP’s recent report into the UK’s delivery sector demanded ‘emergency government intervention’ to protect self-employed workers from exploitation. This is the story behind that investigation

Frank Field, who chairs the House of Commons work and pensions committee, has written to ministers, the Pensions Regulator and the trustees of the Universities Superannuation Scheme seeking answers to why the fund’s finances had deteriorated so sharply.

Labour’s Frank Field was referring to Sir Philip Green, who owned the high street chain for 15 years before selling it to serial bankrupt Dominic Chappell for £1 in 2015.

Frank Field has called for a review of the operation of benefits, including the new universal credit, to prevent claimants being unintentionally forced into poverty.