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Ministers have been urged to "get a grip of the problem", which has led some of the poorest households to build up hefty debts, as a Whitehall department says it is "progressing an enhanced notification strategy" to alert people.

When Tony Blair entered No 10 following Labour’s landslide general election victory of 1997, one of his first acts was to…

The veteran politician and crossbench peer Lord Frank Field revealed in 2021 he was terminally ill as he backed a law in the House of Lords seeking to allow assisted dying

The former Labour MP, who spoke movingly about his battle with terminal cancer last year, has died.

Former Labour minister and crossbench peer Frank Field has died aged 81, his family has announced.

Frank Field was director of the Child Poverty Action Group between 1969 and 1979, and the Member of Parliament for Birkenhead between 1979 and 2019

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Two ex-ministers say the government should pause demands for large sums of money from benefits overpayments.

The decision has been described as ‘appalling by insiders at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).