Luciana Berger

Last week I was out campaigning along with fellow Labour MPs Stephen Twigg and Steve Rotheram, against sky high loan interest rates. With more and more people struggling to meet the cost of higher bills, it’s hardly surprising then that many households now have to rely on payday loans just to get by each month.

Payday loans [...]

Labour has repeatedly warned about the unfairness and problems with David Cameron’s child benefit plans. 
A two-earner family each earning £40,000 – a total of £80,000 – would keep their entire child benefit. But a single-earner family on £43,000 would lose it all from next year.
Tough choices on tax, spending and pay do need to be made [...]

The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) is the largest gathering of start-up champions from around the world. Coming to Britain for the first time in March, I am delighted the GEC 2012 will be taking place right here in Liverpool.

It will provide a festival for business where people, passion and potential will be celebrated, inspired and accelerated. [...]

This month saw the launch of the second annual Parliamentary live music competition, ‘Rock the House’.

 ‘Rock the House’ is a Parliamentary live music and venue competition. This year the prizes are much bigger and the competition even counts rock legends Alice Cooper, Ian Gillan and Matt Tuck as its Patrons with many more exciting artists to [...]

Last week I met with licensees and retailers from Childwall, Allerton Road, Rose Lane and Penny Lane. The group work together to ensure the area is a safe place for residents to shop and socialise.

They have recently introduced a Banning Order initiative which means that any offender who has been banned from one retail/licensed premises may [...]

Ed Miliband MP  has written to the Prime Minister over inaccurate claims which he made in response to questions in Parliament today.

The text of Ed Miliband’s letter is below:

Dear Prime Minister,

I wanted to write following this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions to draw your attention to some inaccurate claims you made today.

In an answer to me, you [...]

The British recovery has been stalling since the government’s spending review in the autumn of 2010, but now the economy has gone into reverse. Since the Chancellor’s spending review the economy has grown by just 0.3% compared to the 3.0% the government predicted. 

As for the eurozone crisis being to blame, it is only rising exports that [...]

Last week in Parliament I called for an urgent update on how many businesses are still waiting for compensation following last summer’s disturbances. This followed correspondence I received revealing that businesses in Liverpool have yet to be paid a penny.

In August the Prime Minister said that he would help affected businesses to get back up and running quickly. [...]

Last week I signed a Book of Commitment in the House of Commons, pledging my commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those who died during the Holocaust.

Friday January 27th will mark the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration and extermination camp which is the site of the largest mass murder in history.

In [...]

One of the world’s leading street theatre companies is bringing an event to Liverpool in April.

The spectacle, ‘A Little Girl Giant’, is a love story which takes its inspiration from the story of the Titanic which infamously set sail from England on April 10th 1912.

The street company Royal De Luxe will put on the show from [...]