Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, speaking in the West Midlands later today will launch Labour’s action plan to protect family budgets. 
 
He will be accompanied by Ed Balls and Rachel Reeves on a visit to a supermarket cafe and then hold a Q&A with members of the public at a local community centre.
  

Joan Ruddock, Labour MP for Lewisham Deptford, following the letter she has written to David Cameron on the inaccurate claim he made in response to her question at PMQs, said:

“The Prime Minister is completely out of touch. His Government is slashing Disability Living Allowance but at Prime Minister's Questions today he tried desperately to claim otherwise.

“The Prime Minister got this badly wrong. He should correct the record and admit the scale of his Government’s cuts to disability benefits.” 

On Tuesday 6th March, the Care and Support Alliance will be organising a mass lobby of Parliament. Over 1000 campaigners from charities and organisations that work with older and disabled people are expected to attend.  

Catherine McKinnell MP, Shadow Children and Young Families Minister, responding to the publication of the ‘Children in Care and Adoption and Performance Tables’, said: 

“The true test of a good society is how it provides for its most vulnerable, in particular children in care. It is clearly important for some local authorities and parts of the court system to improve their performance when it comes to identifying children who are suitable for adoption, and then ensuring that they are placed in a timely fashion.