Yardley MP Jess Phillips attended the unveiling of the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square.
 
The statue is of Millicent Fawcett a pioneering suffragist who campaigned for women’s right to vote. It was commissioned as part of this year’s centenary of the Representation of the People Act- which gave some women over the age of 30 the vote.
 
Caroline Perez launched the campaign after noticing the lack of historical female figures honoured in Parliament Square.
 

Yardley MP Jess Phillips MP joins the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Single Parents.
 
The APPG for Single Parent Families aims to integrate consideration of single parent families in the policymaking process at all level of governance.
 
Jess joined cross-party MPs to show her support for single parents in Yardley to coincide with the USA’s National Single Parent Day.
 
Jess Phillips MP said:
 

Yardley MP Jess Phillips attended an event to show her support for the upcoming Universal Credit Bill.
 
Jess supports the Universal Credit Bill’s aim to make split payments the ‘default’ for Universal Credit claims due to concerns that Universal Credit is likely to exacerbate financial abuse – as the monthly payment, made in arrears, will be paid to one person in the household. 
 

Yardley MP Jess Phillips, alongisde Lynne Baird, organised a meeting with the Police and Crime Commissioner to discuss tackling knife crime in Birmingham.
 
Sadly last year Lynne Baird’s son, Dan Baird, was attacked outside Digbeth’s Forge Tavern pub and taken to hospital with multiple stab wounds. He unfortunately died from his injuries.
 
Dan’s murder was part of a number of knife attacks that claimed 11 lives in just seven weeks.