Pauline Latham issued the statement today after she replied to a constituent on Twitter with the blunt advice. The man, with the Twitter handle @ML1Hughes, had messaged the Mid Derbyshire MP on Saturday asking: "Is £94 a week SSP is enough to live on? It comes after calls on the government to ramp up the rate of Statutory Sick Pay after Tory Chancellor refused to say if he could live on it. Rishi Sunak last week announced he will refund firms the costs of Statutory Sick Pay for two weeks. But he defied pleas by unions to make Statutory Sick Pay more generous or extend it to more people.

Source: Daily Mirror March 17, 2020 10:50 UTC