Anger after government uses wrong spelling for district TWICE in official document
A Staffordshire MP is complaining after an official government document mis-spelt Lichfield.
The district's Tory MP Michael Fabricant has tabled a question in Parliament about the document issued by the Department for Work and Pensions detailing the roll out of Universal Credit.
It twice referred to the district as Litchfield.
The spelling is the same used for towns in New York and Connecticut, USA. It is also the name of the fictional women's prison in the Netflix series Orange Is The New Black.
Mr Fabricant, an outspoken critic of Commons Speaker John Bercow, tweeted: "I think Speaker Bercow may be getting a point of order about this!! An outrage!!"
His official question is to work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith and reads: "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how the District of Lichfield came to be mis-spelt in the document 'Universal Credit National Expansion' and how the Department intends to correct it."
