A Liverpool MP has called for a debate into potential job centre closures including one that could impact the city and hundreds of jobs.
Earlier this year, Kim Johnson MP, Labour member for Liverpool Riverside, revealed she had received a letter from the now-former employment minister Mims Davies confirming that the Department of Work of Pensions (DWP) was moving to close Toxteth job centre and centralising its services at a city centre location. Around 200 jobs will be moved at the branch on High Park Street and St John’s Market locations when they close in March 2023.
An emergency meeting was called at Toxteth Town Hall by PCS Union officials in a bid to fight the closure. Ms Johnson used a debate on the business of the house in Parliament to call on the Government to debate alternative options.
