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The deposit-free mortgages I am proposing would be aimed at those whose net income would increase significantly by moving from renting to buying, and who are not fortunate enough to be able to draw on the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, writes Frank Field MP

Heidi Allen joins former Labour MP Frank Field on mission to highlight the poverty caused by her party’s policies

The idea that Britain has a safety net to protect its most vulnerable citizens from destitution is fast disappearing. That is one of the many troubling findings emerging from the series of visits that Heidi Allen and I are conducting, to gauge the extent, causes and effects of chronic poverty in our country.

The result of the real ‘People’s Vote’, which took place in June 2016, is at risk of being stolen. But this is no usual highway robbery where we can see the assailant.

Frank Field, chairman of the Government’s Independent Review on the workings of the Modern Slavery Act, said there needed to be “tougher action” to ensure companies are taking their responsibilities to eradicate modern slavery from supply chains seriously.

Children’s faces “lit up” in a “magical” moment when they met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last week, according to one well-wisher who greeted the couple during a walkabout. Birkenhead MP Frank Field shared the message he had received from the royal fan in a post on Twitter.

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field hosted the first Birkenhead Community Summit at the Wirral Deen Centre on Saturday 12th January. The Summit enabled community and faith groups in Birkenhead to get together and discuss issues that matter to the town, with the aim being to develop even stronger working relationships between different organisations so that resources and ideas can be pooled effectively.

The move follows years of campaigning in Parliament by Frank Field, the Independent MP for Birkenhead

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field and Merseyside’s Chief Fire Officer Phil Garrigan have asked the fire services Minister Nick Hurd to confirm in the next funding settlement that there will be no further cuts to Merseyside’s fire and rescue service.

Five years on from the parliamentary inquiry that was conducted by a cross-party group of MPs and Peers, into the growing need for food banks in this country, Frank and Heidi will refresh the inquiry’s findings with a programme of visits to food banks and other frontline community organisations.

The royal couple will experience four “good news stories” in the Wirral town after accepting an invitation from local MP Frank Field.

Frank Field MP warns the long wait for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a “recruiting sergeant for food banks”

Any party seeking to gain traction with young voters must surely seize upon these trends, by opening up apprenticeships to as many youngsters as possible and, in so doing, giving them a firm footing on the pay ladder once they have left school.

Frank Field said today: “This major success is the latest example of an important change being gained from an alliance of the Globe, local residents, and their MP.

CAMPAIGNING MP Frank Field is keeping up the pressure on hospital chiefs to improve parking for staff and patients.

Frank Field has gained two immediate moves from the Government to help kick-start a fightback against exploitative doorstep lenders like Provident.

Frank Field has been named ‘Parliamentarian of the Year’ at the Spectator Awards

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field has said that there is a ‘sense of urgency’ in safeguarding hundreds of jobs at Cammell Laird.

Branding the situation a “gross failure”, Frank Field said: “No carer should have to suffer as result of such shocking ineptitude.”

Frank Field, who chairs the committee, said: “Allowing banks to operate a ‘no DSS’ policy is a return to the wicked old days of housing discrimination, with claimants effectively blacklisted for housing and at risk of being senselessly evicted for no greater crime than receiving housing benefit.

Frank Field MP has written to Merseytravel after feedback from residents in the Wirral town found people struggle to get to work, health appointments, shops and the town centre.

Frank Field, who chairs the committee, said he had heard accounts of “terrible and unnecessary hardship” from people who had been sanctioned.

Frank Field fears new regulations on switching to the benefit could leave many people worse off and struggling to cope

BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field writes for Globe ahead of the Wilfred Owen Commemoration

‘Norway for now, then Canada’ is both a short-term and long-term fix, and most MPs would get behind it

Birkenhead’s MP Frank Field is battling to safeguard jobs at Cammell Laird by supporting the yard’s bids for two major shipbuilding orders – one from the Ministry of Defence and the other from Merseytravel.

The government’s radical overhaul of benefits is pushing the low paid into destitution

Saying that each child is sacred is all too easy, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Our schools will have to live up to these highest of ideals so that parents realise these aren’t yet more platitudes but an actual programme of work. We’ll be judged on whether we’re meeting our objectives in maximising their children’s talents, whatever they may be.

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