ITV cover adoption pay campaign
ITV news cover Lisa Smart MP's campaign for fair adoption pay.
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ITV news cover Lisa Smart MP's campaign for fair adoption pay.
Stockport MPs Tom Morrison and Lisa Smart have challenged the Government to show where capital funding for Stepping Hill Hospital is going, after receiving a letter referencing £11.5 million in funding, but no information on what it is being used for.
The failure to include Stepping Hill Hospital on the New Hospitals Programme – despite the looming £130 million repair bill – has been challenged by local MPs Lisa Smart and Tom Morrison in a letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
Local MP Lisa Smart directly challenged Government Minister Andrew Western over the inequalities in adoption pay which leave self-employed people without the same support that biological parents or employed people get.
Local MP Lisa Smart’s call for equal pay for adoptive parents is gaining traction, with a debate in Westminster on the subject set for this week.
Liberal Democrat MPs Lisa Smart (Hazel Grove) and Tom Morrison (Cheadle) have called the dropping of the government’s pledge to meet the A&E four hour waiting time target by the end of the Parliament an “insult to patients”.