Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary after»

Things were not so lucky for Stephen Crabb, who quit as Work and Pensions Secretary after just a few months «for his family».

Debbie Abrahams was removed as shadow work and pensions secretary after a number of complaints about her behaviour.

Grayling was initially intended to replace Iain Duncan Smith, his immediate superior as Employment Minister, as Work and Pensions Secretary after Duncan Smith was moved to Lord Chancellor.

Not exact matches

She had served as work and pensions secretary during the final years of the New Labour government; after that she has been shadow minister for women and equalities, shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary.

The work and pensions secretary has finally published his white paper on shaking up the benefits system after months of build - up.

After Labour lost the 2010 general election and Ed Miliband became the party's leader, Alexander was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was made the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».

The chancellor confirmed he was «in effect ruling it out» after the Telegraph newspaper reported work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith had offered to cut welfare spending by an extra # 3 billion a year.

Labour's shadow work and pension secretary Rachel Reeves has asked «when will the PM and IDS [Iain Duncan Smith] get a grip» on Universal Credit, after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude admitted to ITV News that its implementation had been «pretty lamentable» so far:

In a statement to the Commons yesterday, immediately after PMQs, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander talked of a «generous offer» being made by the Government to reform public service pensions.

The work and pensions secretary left open the possibility of moves against the elderly after days of buildup to today's Commons vote on deep cuts to welfare spending for those of working age.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

The outspoken backbencher took to Twitter just minutes after the former welfare - slasher sensationally quit from his role as Work and Pensions Secretary.

«This is not going to be painless» Sir Richard Mottram, Work & Pensions permanent secretary 2002 - 5, told Channel 4 News that it was not true that things people cared about would not be hit by cutbacks after the election.

After Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour Party, he was named as new Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

After work and pensions secretary Damian Green used his appearance on the BBC's Question Time show to urge voters to back a «strong and stable» Tory government, one audience member was having none of it.

The latest raid comes after work and pension secretary David Gauke recently snared Portland partner Idil Oyman to be his special adviser.

Commenting on today's announcement that the Government is to bring forward the effective date from which the state pension age will only become payable at 68, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union said:, «Over recent years teachers have already faced hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions, compounded by year after year of real term cuts to their pay.

Speaking after today's (27) meeting with ministers over the government's plans to cut public sector pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said.

Over 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding Iain Duncan Smith live on # 53 a week, after the work and pensions secretary said he would be able to make do on the money.

Work and pensions secretary and his opposite number, Rachel Reeves, among MPs subject to action after failing to show spending was valid

Claim: The Daily Telegraph alleged that the work and pensions secretary avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of a London flat after claiming expenses for tax advice from an accountant.

Labour inflicted a symbolic defeat on the government over universal credit on Wednesday night, hours after work and pensions secretary David Gauke announced he would end a 55p - a-minute helpline for welfare claimants.

Tories under fire for abstaining from vote hours after work and pensions secretary David Gauke ends helpline charges

The fate of UC, which is several years behind its original schedule after delays caused by management failings and IT design problems, has been the subject of speculation since its champion, the former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, resigned in March after years of clashes with the Treasury.

The Government's own Work and Pensions Secretary said the budget was «deeply unfair» as he spectacularly resigned 48 hours after it was unveiled.

And Abrahams herself, who put out an extraordinary statement after she was forced step aside as shadow work and pensions secretary:

Even its longtime work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, eventually broke ranks and resigned after a budget that proposed still further cuts to disabled people's benefits.

After serving on the Shadow Cabinet, he became Education and Employment Secretary in 1997, Home Secretary in 2001, and Work and Pensions Secretary in 2005.

Work and pensions secretary says he will «fight every step of the way» after EU executive launches court case

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has faced criticism after scaling back a pilot scheme for his flagship universal credit - which will merge dozens of different out - of - work benefits into a single payment with the aim of ensuring an individual is always better off in work than on benefit.

David Cameron told the House of Commons that a Labour MP should consider taking his pension after he asked a question about the culture secretary.

He had been Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since the Tory - led coalition came to power in May 2010 until he dramatically resigned two days after Budget in March 2016.

Two other guests to whom I'll be talking are the Conservative's Policy Director, Oliver Letwin and now after the Labour conference week is over, John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary.

In September 2004, Prime Minister Tony Blair appointed Johnson to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after the resignation of Andrew Smith.

The former chancellor said that the government had protected too many areas of public spending after the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, appeared to indicate that ministers would rule out cuts to the welfare budget for the rest of the parliament.

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.

It comes just hours after the Work and Pensions Secretary said he will stand on a joint «blue collar» ticket with Business Secretary Sajid Javid.

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.

David Cameron appointed his new Work and Pensions Secretary just 13 hours after the shock resignation.

The Labour leader made his stinging remarks after the Work and Pensions Secretary - who has been slashing welfare since 2010 - claimed slashing Personal Independence Payments (PIP) was a «compromise too far».

The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary emerged as the «unity candidate» to take on Mr Corbyn after Angela Eagle dramatically withdrew from the race at 5.30 pm.

Greening was said to have been keen to stay on in her role as education secretary, but resigned after she turned down the role of work and pensions secretary.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, applauds the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) after the committee voted favorably to send Betsy DeVos» nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education to the Senate floor.

Alec Farley (see Farley v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2006] UKHL 31, [2006] 3 All ER 935) has tasted six of the seven — and he is still involved with three (appeal tribunal, county court and High Court) nearly five years after 10 years of assessments landed on his doormat in November 2002 telling him he had around # 32,000 to pay.