Luciana Berger

New figures today show that unemployment has increased to a 17-year high after a rise of 118,000 in the number of people out of work across the UK.

I’m very worried that here in the constituency right now 11% of people can’t find work. Not enough jobs are being created and there are 16 people chasing every vacancy.

Today’s [...]

Following six months of consultation, Liverpool City Council has now come up with an innovative scheme which will keep every one of the 26 Children’s Centres in the city open. This includes Church & Mossley Hill and Childwall & Woolton which were under threat as a result of Government cuts.

Liverpool City Council has lost a third [...]

Last week I attended the launch of Live and Learn like a Champion at Wavertree Tennis Centre. The launch marked 200 days to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.   150 students attended the launch along with Beth Tweddle, the Olympic Gymnast. An inspirational talk was given in groups to the children by Paralympic medallist [...]

Yesterday in the House of Commons I challenged David Cameron about his Government’s cuts to heating help for pensioners this winter. Across Liverpool over 80,000 people will be worse off by as much as £100, after the Tories and the Lib Dems cut the Winter Fuel Allowance – even after they promised not to before the [...]

Last December I attended the Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group launch. I won second prize in a quiz – and the prize was £250 worth of books from the Scholastic Book Club (www.scholasticbookclubs.co.uk) which I can donate to a school library of my choice.  There are over 1,000 titles to choose from on the website so it’s a prize worth having.

I [...]

Traditionally January is a time to celebrate the passing of one year and to welcome the beginning of the next. Unfortunately this New Year many people are finding it hard to be optimistic.

The past 12 months have been really tough and with unemployment rising to nearly three million it doesn’t look like things will get easier [...]

Since I was elected I’ve been asking the Government to take dangerous dogs seriously and get them off our streets. Before the election the last Labour Government began a consultation on how to toughen up our dangerous dog laws. This closed seventeen months ago. Since then the current Government has done nothing. It may not be [...]

I’m supporting better financial education in schools after attending the launch of a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Financial Education for Young People. The report recommends that the Government should promote the provision of high quality financial education in schools in England.

Lack of financial knowledge is a big problem in Britain. A [...]

At this time of year, lots of us are in and out of the shops, picking up last minute Christmas presents. And yet, many people I talk to are worried about the future of our high streets.

Just last week, Mary Portas (better known as TV’s Mary Queen of Shops) issued a major report into what’s happening to [...]

This year has seen energy prices rise to record levels and the number of fuel poor households in the UK is now over 6.6 million. Almost 30 per cent of households in Liverpool Wavertree are struggling to heat their homes.

No-one should be dying of the cold in this country. I have pledged my support to work [...]