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Local fundraiser Derek Holmes has been awarded with the Prime Minister’s prestigious Points of Light award for outstanding voluntary work and fundraising in the local community.

In the debate in Parliament on the Budget, Margaret Greenwood MP highlighted the implications for Merseyside of the failure of the Budget to provide any new funding for vital public services that are facing severe cuts to their budgets.

Margaret Greenwood MP, Shadow Employment and Inequalities Minister, has given a cautious welcome to changes to Universal Credit announced in the Budget today, but warned that they go nothing like far enough to help families on low income struggling to pay bills, with inflation overall at nearly 3% and food prices rising at the highest rate for 4 years.

Margaret Greenwood MP intervened in a debate at Westminster to raise the case of a local paramedic who paid off over £1,000 of his student loan in 2016-17, but was charged over £800 in interest by the Student Loans Company in the same year.

In a debate at Westminster on Britain’s bee population, Margaret Greenwood MP has praised local beekeepers in Wirral and highlighted the importance of bees to Britain’s ecosystems and crop production.