Sentences with phrase «pension secretary»

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.

To say, as the work and pensions secretary did yesterday, that it was always clear this had been a temporary measure is a rewrite of history.

The work and pensions secretary stressed that a gradual increase in the state pension age from 65 to 68 can be agreed now to save future taxpayers taking on huge costs.

Less than 12 months later, his return to the cabinet as work and pensions secretary ended in resignation amid a row over his business interests.

Was the work and pensions secretary speaking out of turn?

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said: «Earnings are now rising at 3 percent and inflation is running at about zero.

During a heated exchange, shadow pensions secretary Liam Byrne said the policy would be fundamentally unfair in light of the cut to the top rate of income tax.

The former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith has made it clear to colleagues that he is ready to challenge the leader.

On Monday the former work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb said that cabinet ministers like Johnson should resign from the cabinet if they are unable to support government policy.

Corbyn's speech follows comments by former shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves, in which she suggested that there would be riots, if immigration wasn't reduced.

Mr Maude said that former pensions secretary John Hutton's recent report on public sector pensions had prompted a cross-party consensus that they needed to be made «fairer and more sustainable».

However, shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned that those who lost their pensions were «still in exactly the same desperate position» and demanded the government «show leadership in resolving this crisis».

This resulted in the work and pensions secretary David Gauke agreeing to provide the papers to a select committee before Christmas.

«I've always said [executives] should think very carefully about being detached from the British public,» work and pensions secretary Mr Duncan Smith told the Andrew Marr programme.

But shadow work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper said the Budget would «push people on the dole».

But then there was my enforced resignation, the debacle of the MPs» expenses scandal, terrible local and European election results, an abortive coup by Pensions Secretary James Purnell, and the concessions that Gordon had to make to Harriet Harman and others as the price of staying in post.

Includes: - The relationship between Ed Miliband and Ed Balls: «They're like chalk and cheese,» says one senior party figure - The Labour leader's efforts to persuade his brother David to serve as shadow chancellor after Alan Johnson's resignation - How Miliband clashed with shadow pensions secretary Liam Bryne: «Ed became sick of Liam always telling him what to do, to do it this way, that way.»

And on Monday, our shadow work & pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams announced we would be scrapping the punitive sanctions regime and the degrading Work Capability Assessment.

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

Mr Hain, who resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary last year over allegations about the funding of his deputy leadership campaign which were later dismissed, also suggested Labour had been too «caught up» in the success of the City to hold the financial system to account.

Introducing the bill, work and pensions secretary Peter Hain said it would help promote a savings culture in the UK.

The new committee will be made up of Secretaries of State from 11 Government departments, including Chancellor Philip Hammond, Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green.

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 Work Capability Assessment is broken — here's how work and pensions secretary Esther McVey could fix it.

Iain Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary who claimed there was a «black ops» attempt to denigrate Leadsom, said rival MPs had to examine their behaviour.

Iain Duncan Smith will stay as work and pensions secretary in Mr Cameron's new cabinet.

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.

«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.

Speaking today at the Policy Exchange, shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling said the welfare state must act as a safety net and not a way of life.

Now, whilst the Work and Pensions Secretary tells us that the system must ensure that people are better off in work, the changes to Working Tax Credit announced today will have the opposite effect.

Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Theresa May spoke from the front bench.

The Work and Pensions Secretary claimed workers trapped on cruel zero hours contracts are actually «more satisfied» than those in full - time work.

The Work and Pensions Secretary called time on Britain's system of Remploy factories, which provided subsidised and sheltered employment to disabled people.

First off, Corbyn's office announced that Debbie Abrahams had stepped down as shadow Work and Pensions Secretary as a result of allegations of bullying made by her office staff.

The former shadow work and pensions secretary also backed Mr Corbyn's call for a war powers act to give MPs in Parliament a legal veto over any decision to go to war.

The Work and Pensions Secretary added that the party would win more support for marriage if it stopped attacking people whose «lifestyles don't fit».

Nicholas Soames, the mighty MP for Mid-Sussex, elicited an interesting reponse from Work and Pensions Secretary Tony McNulty yesterday, when Mr Soames raised the issue of a cap on immigrants during oral questions in the Commons:

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.

Works and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith sought to do a means - tested consolidation of several social support programmes, motivated by the goal of reducing «benefits».

The work and pensions secretary used interviews ahead of the parliamentary appearance to insist he took «complete responsibility» for the debacle, but he is accused of trying to strong - arm Conservatives on the PAC to pin the blame for the universal credit problems onto his department's senior civil servant, Robert Devereux.

But the work and pensions secretary accused Labour of acting as irresponsibly in opposition as they had when in power.

Following the interview the former shadow work and pensions secretary tweeted saying Mr Corbyn had been non-committal when asked whether he was prepared to see the party divide into separate entities.

Blunkett served as education secretary, home secretary and work and pensions secretary under Tony Blair.

The party said Abrahams had agreed to stand aside as shadow work and pensions secretary while an «employment issue» is investigated by the top of the party.

He was Work and Pensions Secretary for just 117 days, making him the shortest lived welfare secretary since 1945.

The former Tory leader resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary with a scathing attack on the Chancellor's «political» cuts to the most vulnerable.

But not only did the new work and pensions secretary not even mention the issue, he carried out his entire speech stood in front of a big sign with Capita's logo emblazoned across it.

Margaret Greenwood, the MP for Wirral West, will fill the vacant shadow work and pensions secretary position while an investigation takes place into the allegations against Abrahams.

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.

«This latest set back will do nothing to ease the concerns of the British public as we head towards a Gordon Brown coronation as prime minster,» claimed shadow work and pensions secretary Phillip Hammond.