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Margaret Greenwood MP, Shadow Minister for Employment and Inequalities, has called on the government to take urgent action to tackle child poverty, as statistics just published show 26% of children in Wirral living in poverty after housing costs are take into account. In some parts of London and Birmingham, that figure rises to over half of all children.

In a debate at Westminster on food poverty on Merseyside, Wirral West MP and Shadow Minister for Employment, Margaret Greenwood, paid tribute to the large number of organisations in Wirral and across Merseyside as a whole who provide emergency food aid to people in poverty.

Wirral West MP Margaret Greenwood has called for full public and parliamentary scrutiny of the introduction of Accountable Care Organisations to run NHS and social care services.

Margaret Greenwood MP intervened in an urgent debate today in Parliament called by Labour MP Harriet Harman to warn of the impact of the government’s failure to provide the £4 billion extra funding that NHS England says is needed this year.

Margaret Greenwood, MP for Wirral West, has urged Wirral Council to listen to public opinion on their proposals for a golf resort in Hoylake following a public meeting.