Sentences with phrase «dem pensions minister»

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

Haldane received strong criticism at the time of the interview, with Ros Altmann, the former pensions minister, saying his comments were «irresponsible.»

Among the replacements could be former lord chancellor Charlie Falconer, former shadow chancellor Alan Johnson and shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves, the Independent reported.

This morning Baroness Altmann, who quit as pensions minister last month, said she believed the commitment to increasing by 2.5 % should be dropped at the next general election.

Two former pensions ministers, Liberal Democrat Steve Webb and his Conservative successor Ros Altmann (pictured above), today squared up over whether the government should keep the triple lock.

This is partly because of the approach of the coalition's pensions minister, Steve Webb, who spends his days pursuing agreement away from the headlines.

During a period when the inexorable trends of demography are making politicians» tasks much harder, it's a legacy which future pensions ministers will be grateful to receive.

Pensions minister Ros Altmann argued voters would be undermining their «democratically elected leaders» if they vote to quit the bloc, since pro-EU MPs enjoy a significant parliamentary majority.

This impression has been strengthened by the fact he is the longest - serving pensions minister in years and years.

Other big - name transfers into Westminster include Ros Altmann, the former Saga director general who took a peerage last year to become pensions minister, resigning last month.

The FSB recently wrote to the Pensions Minister asking for changes to be made to the scheme.

After looking at his recent record, perhaps the same could be said for the work and pensions minister.

The former Work and Pensions minister recited the words to Lose Yourself live on ITV's Good Morning Britain, leaving presenter Piers Morgan in stitches.

The Lifting the Restrictions on Nest report comes after groups including the TUC, Age UK and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wrote to Pensions Minister Steve Webb last month, urging him to lift the barriers around Nest as soon as possible.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.

There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

Team of the Week: The Work & Pension ministers.

[278] UK government pensions minister Steve Webb said in May 2014 that Scots would be entitled to the current levels of state pension after independence because they had accumulated rights within the existing system.

«In the summer, pensions minister Mike O'Brien was very ready to make all the right noises for the women concerned but when it comes to a decision not to do something, it is slipped out at the end of the parliamentary session when nobody has noticed.»

Liberal Democrat and experienced member - nominated trustee Janice Turner will deliver a policy motion on Saturday — backed by pensions minister Steve Webb — pushing for reform of both defined benefit and defined contribution pensions.

Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Andrew Selous called for reform of the local housing allowance:

The report was not welcomed by all, with a former Tory pensions minister warning that the national insurance recommendations would be as unpopular with voters as the abandoned election plans for a so - called dementia tax.

Baroness Altmann, Tory former pensions minister, warned that «only about one in 10 pensioners continues working past state pension age and are not all well - off.

Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb MP has said he intends to implement the policy in full — and it was backed by a large majority of local representatives on Saturday afternoon.

Gladstone - like the rest of society - regarded them as a sign of manhood; former Work and Pensions Minister James Purnell evidently agrees.

That's a feather in the cap for pensions minister Steve Webb.

Shadow work and pensions minister Liam Byrne told the National Housing Federation on Thursday that: «We're determined to see and find a way to get this dropped.»

But today pensions minister James Purnell warned that individuals must also take responsibility for their future.

Steve Webb, the Liberal Democrat pensions minister, would also have voted with the Government but was given permission to be on holiday.

Steve Webb, the pensions minister, said he wanted to give people «certainty» that they would get a guaranteed income when they retired.

Indeed, thanks to nice Mr Alan Johnson (when he was Pensions Minister), they are almost the only ones left who can look forward to a decent pension.

High - profile members of that profession ejected from their Commons seats on May 7 included business secretary Vince Cable, pensions minister Steve Webb, schools minister David Laws and — in a small - hour moment that signalled the turning tide — shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

«The idea that one day you work and the next you stop can be a shock to the system,» said pensions minister Mike O'Brien.

Yet earlier this year Lord Freud, a work and pensions minister, told the House of Lords that food banks were not considered part of the welfare system.

The changes were revealed in a Written Ministerial Statement by Work and Pensions Minister Mike Penning today.

Just to throw in an extra name to the mix, the first scheduled speaker is Steve Webb, the pensions minister who has quietly impressed and also, sources say, quietly sees himself as leadership candidate.

Department for Work and Pensions Minister of state - Tony McNulty (and minister for London) Minister of state - Rosie Winterton (and minister for Yorkshire and the Humber) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Jonathan Shaw (and minister for the south east) Parliamentary under secretary of state - Kitty Ussher Parliamentary under secretary of state - Lord MacKenzie of Luton

They include former schools minister David Laws, now executive chairman of CentreForum, and former pensions minister Steve Webb, now director of policy and external communications at savings mutual Royal London.

Claim: The shadow work and pensions minister - who owns 24 houses - claimed over # 100,000 in allowances, the Daily Telegraph said.

Response: The work and pensions minister's spokesman said Ms Ussher «fully supports» the review into MPs» expenses claims and believed it was right that MPs expenses» claims should be published.

The Tory rebel, who resigned as work and pensions minister over the ex-Chancellor's budget, is speaking out publicly against the planned cut to Universal Credit, which he says will cost three million people more than # 1,000 a year each.

Mark Harper, who resigned as immigration minister after discovering his cleaner was an illegal immigrant, is back in government as a work and pensions minister.

At the time two years ago ex-Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb said he would have no problem with older Brits using the freedom to use the cash on a Lamborghini if they wanted to.

Most accounts say Thatcher's experience as a junior Pensions minister and Education Secretary was negligible and affected very little - as PM, she preferred to refer to her time spent as an Opposition spokesman than to her time in government.

Last night, pensions minister Ros Altmann published an extraordinary attack on her former boss, alleging that he had been looking for an excuse to resign.

Similarly, it is the Lib Dem pensions minister, Steve Webb, who has been pushing for the changes to pensions announced today.

Since losing her seat by just 417 votes in the general election, the former work and pensions minister has clearly not been short of job offers.

At the time of writing, The Orange Book features the deputy prime minister, the energy secretary and his predecessor, the business secretary, an education and Cabinet Office minister, a transport minister and the pensions minister.

The scheme was boosted to # 2.3 billion in March when Gordon Brown committed an extra # 400 million in the Budget, and today pensions minister James Purnell said it would now help about 40,000 people.

Employment minister Esther McVey, work and pensions minister Stephen Timms and Taxpayers» Alliance chief executive Matthew Sinclair all attended today's event.