Southport MP engagement with local Council three times higher than other Sefton MPs.

Official figures from Sefton Council show that Damien Moore MP engaged with the Council at a rate three times higher when compared to the next highest Sefton MP in the 2021-2022 financial year.

The data show that Mr. Moore submitted 317 formal enquiries on behalf of his constituents to Sefton Council between 1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022, compared to 93 from Bill Esterson and 50 from Peter Dowd. This represents more than double the volume of enquiries than the other two MPs combined.

Each enquiry typically represents a piece of complex casework on behalf of a constituent, not the thousands of routine emails sent across the same period. MPs frequently engage with local councils to support constituents who have fallen through the gaps due to council mismanagement, and act often as a measure of last resort for a struggling family or individual.

This year’s figures build on those for last year, when official figures showed that Mr. Moore submitted 214 enquiries in the period 23 March 2020 to 29 April 2021, compared to 49 for Bill Esteron MP and 38 for Peter Dowd MP.

Damien Moore, Member of Parliament for Southport, said:

“It is a regretful that the Labour-dominated Sefton Council seem to persist in failing to support Southport and its hard-working residents.

“I will not take lightly any attempt to treat Southport’s residents as in any way inferior or less deserving of the Council’s attention than those residents from Bootle and elsewhere in Sefton.

“Southport deserves better local Governance, and I will continue doing everything I can to stand up for our local community and for local families.”