Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary wants»

The Work and Pensions Secretary wants to force thousands off ESA but campaigners say the real problem is the failure of his welfare policies

Today's Daily Mail reports that the Work and Pensions Secretary wants to transform the way in which child poverty is assessed by examining factors other than relative incomes.

Not exact matches

«People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their talent and enthusiasm from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said.

The former work and pensions secretary, who resigned his Cabinet post in June 2009 as part of a plot to oust Gordon Brown as leader, has decided he doesn't want to spend his life in frontline politics.

If this wasn't enough, Cameron's government wants to further punish those on poverty wages by cutting the benefits that they have to claim, through reforms overseen by Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith.

The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has warned that unemployed teens under a future Tory government would be forced to pick up litter or carry out other community work if they want to receive benefits.

Speaking earlier today, Mr Smith, the former shadow work and pensions Secretary, said he wanted to take on Mr Corbyn in the contest and insisted judges should not «interfere» with the party's ruling.

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton told BBC One's Sunday AM yesterday: «This looks like «back to basics» all over again and I can't believe that is where the Tories want to end up on this.»

He added that he now wants the current culture secretary Sajid Javid to do the same, along with work and pensions sec Iain Duncan Smith and even David Cameron:

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton said he wanted to encourage more couples to settle their own affairs, and from 2008 will remove the requirement for all parents claiming benefits to use the government service.

«What we want to do is to make sure the system works as well as possible, and that's what [the work and pensions secretary] David Gauke and his colleagues at the DWP are doing.

It's not extreme to want democratic government in your country,» the former work and pensions secretary said.

«People should take some reassurance from our prime minister, who I think is standing pretty much foursquare in the middle of public opinion: we don't what to see any more powers ceded over there, but we want to see some powers back,» the work and pensions secretary added.

Greening explained that her decision to turn down the offer of pensions secretary was because she wanted to follow her passion of «equality of opportunity».

The Court of Appeal is not necessarily precluded from hearing appeals by the secretary of state for work and pensions on jurisdictional points against a decision of a social security commissioner, notwithstanding the fact that he was the successful appellant before the commissioner; a social security commissioner does not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a legally qualified panel member who has refused to extend time or who has struck out a proposed appeal for want of jurisdiction.