Sentences with phrase «pensions minister called»

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There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

Shadow Work and Pensions Minister Andrew Selous called for reform of the local housing allowance:

The report was not welcomed by all, with a former Tory pensions minister warning that the national insurance recommendations would be as unpopular with voters as the abandoned election plans for a so - called dementia tax.

«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?»

The work and pensions secretary made his first public pitch to become prime minister with the business secretary, Sajid Javid, by his side at an awkward event that began half an hour late and at which Crabb tried to call on journalists who were not present to ask questions.

The former work and pensions secretary rejected calls to «go back to the remedies of the past» that worked for former prime minister Tony Blair.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says «gold - plated» public sector pensions are «unfair» on private sector workers, but the unions call his statement «scaremongering».