Sentences with phrase «pensions minister last»

This morning Baroness Altmann, who quit as pensions minister last month, said she believed the commitment to increasing by 2.5 % should be dropped at the next general election.

Not exact matches

Likely on the agenda is the pooled registered pension plan (PRPP), a concept introduced by the government in December after the last ministers meeting.

The term «pension crisis» became a feature of the media coverage as finance ministers gathered in Whitehorse last December and again in June in Prince Edward Island.

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.

Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

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.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

More than half of Britons believe Gordon Brown is not fit to be the next prime minister in light of last week's revelations about the impact his 1997 tax reforms had on the pensions system, a new poll has shown.

Last week, just before the wedding raid, he was promoted back into government as a minister in the Department of Work and Pensions.

«Last week the government's true agenda was rumbled, with ministers exposed for making misleading statements about the viability of public sector pensions.

Last year the parliamentary ombudsman said the government should compensate 85,000 workers who lost out on their pensions, saying official leaflets advising them on how to save for their retirement were misleading, but ministers have refused to do so.

Last night, pensions minister Ros Altmann published an extraordinary attack on her former boss, alleging that he had been looking for an excuse to resign.

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude is refusing to reopen pension talks after last autumn's «final offer» from ministers.

This morning the former Labour Cabinet Minister, Lord Hutton of Furness, has published the final report of his Independent Public Services Pension Commission - a task he was given by George Osborne at the time of the emergency Budget last year.

«Even though Alistair Darling said he wasn't told about Sir Fred Goodwin's obscene pension pay off until last week, it now appears his City Minister knew last autumn.

Monte Solberg, a Conservative cabinet minister, who also quit politics last year after 15 years as an MP, is only 51, so he will have to wait four more years to collect his pension.

The government has been under pressure from labour groups and some provinces to enhance the Canada Pension Plan, but Finance Minister Joe Oliver said as recently as last week that Ottawa doesn't favour the move even if Ontario opts to go it alone.

The plan was last launched again by the Government of India for a limited period when the Finance Minister in his 2014 - 15 budget speech mentioned that the success of the earlier LIC Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana plan needs to be replicated and allowed the plan to be revived for one year from 15th August 2014 to 14th August 2015.