Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary for»

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Meanwhile, another committee will work on the reform of the Vatican pension fund under the coordination of Monsignor Brian Ferme, the Prelate Secretary of the Council for Economy.

Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

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.

We are challenging the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions» decision to change the basis on which certain public sector pension benefits, including teachers» pensions, are up - rated from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices IndePensions» decision to change the basis on which certain public sector pension benefits, including teachers» pensions, are up - rated from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Indepensions, are up - rated from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).

General secretary Jonathan Baume said his First Division union, which represents the top seven civil service pay grades, was striking for the first time in its history because members are «angry about what is being proposed» on pensions.

His influence even stretches beyond White Hart Lane: London's Mayor Boris Johnson has named King one of his own youth ambassadors for the capital, while Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has deployed the former Tottenham skipper on a scheme to encourage young black and ethnic minority men back into employment.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander indicated he was likely to support much of the proposals, telling the Today programme: «If we can move to a benefits system that is simpler and makes it easier for people to move from welfare to work, that's the right thing to do.»

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions applied to the Supreme Court to appeal the decision on 25 May 2012.

The Department for Work and Pensions has issued an «urgent bulletin'today announcing that the Secretary of State has decided to drop his pursuit of an appeal at the Supreme Court on a case he had lost at the Court of Appeal.

The Department for Work and Pensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial ServicePensions must halt its damaging cuts programme, the secretary of state for work and pensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Servicepensions Chris Grayling will be told on Wednesday (14) at a meeting with the Public and Commercial Services union.

Work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb said: «He held his own, I thought he explained in a very clear and cool way just why staying part of Europe is the best thing for Britain, why our economic prosperity depends vitally on being part of that single market of 500 million consumers, and I think the Prime Minister did a very good job tonight.»

The former director general of Saga, who only held the ministerial brief for 14 months and was known to have had a rocky relationship with former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the triple lock had «fulfilled its purpose» and pensioner households were now «no more likely to be poor than other age groups».

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

For example, the Work and Pensions Secretary claimed he could get by on # 53 a week and met with such derision that a petition calling on him to prove it attracted hundreds of thousands of signatories within a couple of days.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Former Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has used the occasion to attack his government for «watering down» their agenda on issues from trade union reform to parliamentary sovereignty.

«Despite all the scaremongering, research now shows that of those housing benefit claimants affected by the cap, a third said they would now be looking for a job,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote in a letter to the Daily Mail.

Why did the Conservatives send Esther McVey back to the Department for Work and Pensions as secretary of state when she attracted so much hostility while there in the last Parliament?

However, the former work and pensions secretary insisted that the economic risks of Brexit were outweighed by the need for Britain to govern itself.

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.

However, Labour has pointed out that there will be much lower in - work benefit payments for new claimants put on universal credit — the system championed by the work and pensions secretary, Duncan Smith.

Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, the other pro-Remain candidate running for the top job, told ITV's Peston on Sunday: «The quicker we get past using these labels, the better.

In opposition she has been shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary, as well as shadow minister for work and pensions and for women and equalities.

On abruptly resigning as work and pensions secretary, he called for Brown «to stand aside to give Labour a fighting chance of winning the next election».

He subsequently served in Labour leader Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Foreign Secretary.

The shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, said the UK social security system «was never designed for the levels of migration we are now seeing».

[325] The SNP has also criticised Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, for saying [326] a future UK Labour government would be even tougher on benefits than the Cameron ministry.

Others - including former business secretary Vince Cable - suggested that Green was more like Robert Maxwell, famed for his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund and his mysterious death at sea in 1991.

But the proposals are genuine and have already been officially agreed by Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Thousands will lose benefits as harsher medical approved Tens of thousands of claimants facing losing their benefit on review, or on being transferred from incapacity benefit, as plans to make the employment and support allowance (ESA) medical much harder to pass are approved by the secretary of state for work and pensions, Yvette Cooper.

The work and pensions secretary said the new body would «come down like a ton of bricks» on absent parents who refused to pay maintenance for their children.

Current Conservative officeholders who are members of the group include the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith; David Cameron's PPS, Desmond Swayne; Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Under - Secretary, Mark Harper; the Minister of State for Transport, Theresa Villiers; a Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, Jonathan Djanogly; three government whips, Angela Watkinson, Mark Francois and Greg Hands; the Chairman of the Procedure Committee, Greg Knight; and the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, John Whittingdale, who was Mrs Thatcher's Political Secretary in the late 1980s.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggested that Maria Miller is undergoing a Tory backlash for her role in the same - sex marriage Bill.

«Mr. Heald: To ask the Prime Minister whether the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs will receive the pension entitlement of the Lord Chancellor (a) during the planned transition period before the proposed abolition of the office and (b) subsequently, if the office is abolished; and if he will make a statement.

«In the context of protecting the most vulnerable, let me first urge Ministers to continue to give full support to the welfare reform measures that are being pushed through by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Philip Hammond said the figures were «disappointing», showing that unemployment is now at a six - year high and the claimant count has risen for 14 of the last 15 months.

Responding to news that the largest unions in the country will ballot for industrial action over pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said:

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said:

Paterson's secretary, Larry Schwartz, and NYC OTB President Greg Rayburn held a conference call earlier today to reiterate that the cash - strapped betting operation will shut down if the Legislature doesn't approve its restructuring plan, costing thousands of jobs and leaving the state on the hook for $ 540 million worth of pension liabilities and $ 100 million in outstanding bankruptcy claims.

The work and pensions secretary said last night he was sorry for failing to declare the full amount and source of the donations to the Electoral Commission.

At a keynote speech at Age UK's conference two weeks ago, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith outlined his key principles for pension reform, with a focus on the next generation of pensioners and making it pay for current workers to save for retirement.

He has been a reforming secretary of state for work and pensions.

The NASUWT - the Teachers» Union has written to the Secretary of State for Education to demand that there is immediate implementation for teachers of the decision relayed to the NASUWT by HM Treasury to equalise adult survivor benefits in public service pension schemes for same - sex married and civil partners.

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.

Witness (es): Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Gemma Tetlow, Programme Director, Pensions, Saving and Public Finances, Institute for Fiscal Studies; John Cridland CBE, Director General, CBI, Professor Doug McWilliams, founder of the Centre for Economics and Business Research and Nicola Smith, Head of Economic and Social Affairs Department, Trades Union Congress; Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith this morning launched his bid for the Labour leadership, saying he would be a «radical and credible» alternative.

A dozen London Tory MPs met to decide to push Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, for an exemption or the imposition of a higher cap than the # 400 - a-week one currently planned.

Another rising star of the 2010 intake, the MP for Leeds West was appointed shadow chief secretary to the Treasury in 2011 and shadow work and pensions secretary in 2013.