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Lord Mandelson refuses Parliamentary Question on Lindsey Oil Refinery Dispute.

Monday 2nd February 2009

These strikes are proving to be for Gordon Brown a double whammy.

Saturday 31st January 2009

Commenting on the Bill?s publication tomorrow, 15 January 2009, Frank Field and Nicholas Soames said:

Wednesday 14th January 2009

In advance of Labour's "jobs summit", we highlight how the immigration system undermines the chances of British unemployed people getting the 100,000 jobs the Government intends to create.

Monday 12th January 2009

Frank Field today welcomed the Government?s welfare reform package saying that their importance is not diminished by claimants having to wait a decade for serious reform to begin.

Wednesday 10th December 2008

Today Frank Field gives The Provost Derek Hole Annual Lecture at the University of Leicester.

Wednesday 26th November 2008

Out pops a mouse of a proposal.

Thursday 11th September 2008

Today?s figures must be as much of a disappointment to poor families as they are to the Government.

Tuesday 10th June 2008

Labour risks loosing more of its core voters to parties like the BNP over its failure to face up to the English Question.

Tuesday 3rd June 2008

The Chancellor?s statement this morning is to be welcomed

Wednesday 23rd April 2008

No Labour MP wants to wreck the Budget.

Sunday 20th April 2008

The 2011 Trust, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, is launched in Westminster Abbey where the final editing of the Bible took place.

Thursday 24th January 2008

Up to 80 per cent of new jobs gone to new comers

Monday 10th December 2007

Young people support radical welfare reform

Wednesday 14th November 2007

Migration apology prompted by Frank Field's questions

Tuesday 30th October 2007

Number of foreign workers probably double original estimate

Tuesday 30th October 2007

Benefit figures show more people are claiming Job Seekers Allowance across Merseyside even though there has been an increase in available jobs

Thursday 5th July 2007

The Government needs to radically rethink its anti poverty programme to meet its targets

Wednesday 13th June 2007

Nine years after the creation of the New Deal for Young People, youth unemployment is now higher than in 1997. A radical re-structuring is needed.

Monday 14th May 2007

Latest official figures show that child poverty is on the rise. The Government is set to miss its aim of halving child poverty by the end of the decade unless a new approach is taken.

Tuesday 27th March 2007

I have today tabled a Private Members Bill in the Commons seeking to use the unclaimed assets of banks and building societies to compensate victims of the wind up of occupational schemes.

Wednesday 7th March 2007

We need a radical shake up of the welfare system, not the bit part reforms announced by the Government today to force single mums back to work when their child hits 12 years old.

Monday 5th March 2007

I welcome today's high court judgement concerning lost pensions

Wednesday 21st February 2007

On the 300 year anniversary of the Act of Union a Newsnight poll has found that a majority of the English want their own parliament.

Tuesday 16th January 2007

Meeting with the Paymaster General on revenue jobs in Birkenhead

Monday 15th January 2007

The proposals for a National Pensions Savings Scheme is likely to lead to a reduction in company contributions as well as to accusations of mis-selling.

Tuesday 12th December 2006

The report claims that immigration from EU accession countries has been a benefit to UK companies by providing them with cheap labour. But, this does nothing to improve the long term weakness of Britain's economy: low productivity.

Thursday 23rd November 2006

I welcome the latest Conservative immigration proposals but they are not enough to protect our borders.

Thursday 9th November 2006

I welcome the comments made by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, calling for an independent commission to oversee pensions policy.

Monday 30th October 2006

There are a record number of foreign prisoners in our jails according to new research by the House of Commons library. Instead of just letting prisoners out early the government should consider paying the home country to take them back.

Saturday 19th August 2006