Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary james»

The MP for Don Valley has faced a barrage of criticism for the attack, which came less than 24 hours after she appeared on television to defend him following the resignations of Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell.

According to Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, the party had said from the start that the rate was temporary, because it was a «short - term measure to target poverty and tax credits are the best way of doing that».

He is followed by the Health Secretary Alan Johnson (18.1 per cent); the backbencher Jon Cruddas (11.3 per cent); the Justice Secretary Jack Straw (9.6 per cent); Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman (6.6 per cent); the left - winger John McDonnell (6.5 per cent); the Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (3.2 per cent); and the Schools Secretary Ed Balls (2 per cent).

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell proposed an amendment to the pensions bill which will allow people to buy up to an additional six years of voluntary national insurance contributions, over and above those permitted under the current time limits, in order to enjoy a higher state pension.

Supporters Richard Reeves, director of Demos; Philip Collins, Times leader writer and former speechwriter to Tony Blair; the former work and pensions secretary James Purnell, whose notion of «power egalitarianism» develops a number of civic republican themes.

Not exact matches

As polls closed, the BBC News at Ten revealed that James Purnell had resigned as work and pensions secretary, and written to the PM urging him to consider his position.

Damian Green and James Brokenshire, colleagues from Ms May's tenure at the Home Office, have been promoted to Work and Pensions Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary.

James Purnell would be Cameron's Work and Pensions Secretary.

James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, welcomed the findings as evidence that the government's employment policies were working.

«In the 1990s people were written off on incapacity benefit with no help to overcome their problems or support to get them into work,» said James Purnell, work and pensions secretary.

They are selling Miliband shares and buying those in James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary.

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (James Purnell): The number of people in the UK claiming jobseeker's allowance in October was 980,900.

Thursday 4 June: 10 pm James Purnell resigns as work and pensions secretary.

The work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, reflected government concern over the worsening unemployment outlook.

That evening at 10 pm events took another dramatic turn when James Purnell, the work and pensions secretary, announced he was leaving the cabinet.

There are other proponents of Blue Labour, including James Purnell, the former Work and Pensions Secretary.

The call comes in a Guardian article by James Purnell, the former work and pensions secretary.

In a rallying cry to the Labour party to unite behind Gordon Brown after «grim» local election results, the work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, claimed that the fight against poverty binds old and New Labour, and allows the party to expose the Tories.

James Purnell, work and pensions secretary, Question Time, BBC One, 8 May 2008

James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said: «Now we know that not only would the Conservatives do nothing but sit back and watch the recession «take its course» - they actually believe it would be «good for us».

by James McGinnis Bucks County Courier Times Seventy days into the state budget stalemate, Gov. Tom Wolf is offering major concessions to Republicans in Harrisburg, including a 401 (k)- style pension plan for new state workers, John Hanger, secretary of planning and...

But judges also have applied the exception to dismiss cases filed by the press secretary at a Roman Catholic church, a writer for The Christian Science Monitor, administrators at religious colleges, the disgruntled beneficiaries of a Lutheran pension fund, the overseer of the kosher kitchen at a Jewish nursing home and a co-founder of Focus on the Family, run by the conservative religious leader James C. Dobson.