Sentences with phrase «including pensions minister»

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The then Prime Minister's reformist agenda included reforms to the national budget system, special public corporations, medical insurance, national pension systems, and...

The group — which includes Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the anti-immigration Northern League and the far - right Brothers of Italy party — vowed to eliminate the «damaging effects» of a landmark 2011 pension reform named after then Welfare Minister Elsa Fornero and passed at the peak of Italy's sovereign debt crisis.

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 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.

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.

It has been a particular privilege to work with excellent civil servants and the outstanding Lord Freud and other ministers including my present team, throughout all of my time at the Department of Work and Pensions.

Other ministers prepared to countenance an exit include Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, Chris Grayling, the justice secretary and Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland secretary.

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.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

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.

Prime Minister David Cameron appears on The Andrew Marr Show for a wide - ranging interview touching on subjects including pensions, immigration and Scottish independence.

The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, said in a statement that he had been so concerned about the problems he had written to former Labour ministers — including Hodge — for permission to release papers from their time in office relating to the fraud allegations.

Update: The Department for Work and Pensions has told ITV News Mr Duncan Smith had written to Rachel Reeves to tell her he would not be at the debate as he is at the International Conference on Youth Employmenton the Prime Minister's behalf, along with 20 heads of state including Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande.

During the debate, senior government ministers including Damian Hinds, the education secretary and Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, claimed that no child would lose out on free school meals as a result of the scheme.

Peterson will be watching the outcome of meetings Sunday night and Monday as the country's finance ministers try to hammer out a preliminary agreement on an expanded Canada Pension Plan — one that's likely to include higher benefits and an increase in the premiums that come off the paycheques of workers.

By announcing a wide array of measures, including the introduction of the Universal Social Security Scheme, Atal Pension Yojana, Atal Innovation Mission, new AIIMS hospitals across India, reducing corporate tax, incentivising card transactions and abolishing wealth tax, the finance minister has managed to lay a strong foundation for the future.

The three key schemes include Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Atal Pension Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana that were announced by finance minister Arun Jaitley in the Union Budget 2015 - 16.

July 23, 2015: On Wednesday, M.K. Muneer, Minister for Panchayats and Social Justice, said that around 33 lakh people in the state have joined the social security schemes, including Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Bima Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana which were introduced by the union government in May, 2015.