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Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood has responded to a statement by Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Amber Rudd, by reaffirming Labour’s commitment to scrapping the Conservatives’ benefit sanctions regime which can leave someone without any income at all.

Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood has used a parliamentary debate on preventing serious injury and fatalities while working at height to press the government on cuts in funding for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which, since 1974, has been responsible for safety in the workplace.

Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood has welcomed the fact that the UK Parliament has this week become the first national Parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency.

Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood has hit out at government cuts to social security as it was announced that more than 5,000 three-day emergency food parcels were given out to children in Wirral between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019.

Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood is asking residents from her constituency to submit ideas to Labour’s consultation on the future of social security in the UK. Labour has vowed to completely overhaul the social security system and rebuild it from the principles on which it was founded so that people are supported rather than punished.