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Sir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister who is now director of policy at Royal London, said: «The new state pension has been designed to treat men and women equally.

Just to throw in an extra name to the mix, the first scheduled speaker is Steve Webb, the pensions minister who has quietly impressed and also, sources say, quietly sees himself as leadership candidate.

Not exact matches

Federal Government MPs who support a constitutional monarchy question an address by the Prime Minister to the Australian Republican Movement, criticising the timing of the speech amid debate about power prices, pensions, and the economy.

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.

This is partly because of the approach of the coalition's pensions minister, Steve Webb, who spends his days pursuing agreement away from the headlines.

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.

Prime Minister Orbán, National Economy Minister Matolcsy and other government officials referred to employees who relinquished their private pension - fund savings as those who had chosen to «return to the state pension system.»

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.

Those arguments are unlikely to stop former Labour Cabinet minister John Hutton, who was appointed on Sunday as the chair of an independent commission on public sector pensions.

With jobs and pensions standing out as the key areas of debate, Labour sent former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has fashioned himself into a campaigning machine since leaving the Commons, to the constituency.

Indeed, thanks to nice Mr Alan Johnson (when he was Pensions Minister), they are almost the only ones left who can look forward to a decent pension.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of RiversPension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Riverspension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is among those who have publicly suggested Britain could prosper from outside the EU - a view fundamentally at odds with that of the deputy prime minister.

Related Tory policies would see a doubling of the time period in which minister can not lobby government from one to two years, and a re-writing of the ministerial code so that any ex-minister who ignores guidance issued by the advisory committee on business appointments will lose some or all of their ministerial pension.

Even then, the government appealed the Information Commissioner's ruling and the secretary of state for work and pensions told me in Parliament that, «the Department does not collate numbers on people in that circumstance» only to be contradicted by the Prime Minister two days later at PMQs who said that «the data will be published; they are being prepared for publication as we speak.»

Liberal Democrat pensions spokesman David Laws said the ruling showed people who lost their pensions before the protection fund was set up were «grotesquely short - changed» and said ministers must now recognise their «moral responsibility» to help.

Derek Simpson, general secretary of the Amicus union, welcomed today's ruling as a victory, saying ministers now had a «moral obligation» to reimburse the thousands of people who lost their pensions through no fault of their own.

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.

Claim: The shadow work and pensions minister - who owns 24 houses - claimed over # 100,000 in allowances, the Daily Telegraph said.

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 Tory rebel, who resigned as work and pensions minister over the ex-Chancellor's budget, is speaking out publicly against the planned cut to Universal Credit, which he says will cost three million people more than # 1,000 a year each.

Mark Harper, who resigned as immigration minister after discovering his cleaner was an illegal immigrant, is back in government as a work and pensions minister.

(Press Release) Concerned about the plight of pensioners who retired under the Contributory Pension Scheme without being paid, the Federal Government has cleared the inherited arrears of accrued pension benefit for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 by releasing N41.5 billion to the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) for onward payment to the retirees, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has disPension Scheme without being paid, the Federal Government has cleared the inherited arrears of accrued pension benefit for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 by releasing N41.5 billion to the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) for onward payment to the retirees, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has dispension benefit for the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 by releasing N41.5 billion to the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) for onward payment to the retirees, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has disPension Commission (PENCOM) for onward payment to the retirees, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has disclosed.

«The Minister has just said that the Government proposals would provide greater security for postal workers» pensions, but can he confirm that clause 19 (6)(b) of the Postal Services Bill provides that this or a future Government could waive the pension guarantee and vary the terms of the postal workers» pensions without the approval of the trustees, who will lose their power to protect the pensions under the provisions of the Bill?

Similarly, it is the Lib Dem pensions minister, Steve Webb, who has been pushing for the changes to pensions announced today.

She demanded ministers pay back the 85,000 people who have since lost much of their pensions as a result, but the government rejected this as far too expensive.

«The Lord Dean of Harptree, who died on April 1 aged 84, was an accomplished junior pensions minister under Edward Heath who, after being shunned by Margaret Thatcher, spent his final decade in the Commons as a deputy Speaker.

More... Council sacks the # 200,000 superhead who suspended seven pupils in first two days The bloated council where six bosses earn more than the Prime Minister Unions are already threatening to strike over plans to make members contribute more towards pensions.

Ros Altmann, the Conservative peer, pensions expert and pensions minister between 2015 and 2016, has said it would be a mistake for the Treasury to cut taxes for the young by raising taxes for people who are older and better off.

The idea, pushed by Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb, would allow those who have already bought a lifetime annuity the chance to access freedoms as well.

Labour sources said she would be replaced by Emily Thornberry, who is being promoted from her role as a shadow work and pensions minister.

In addition to Jim O'Neill (see 2.56 pm), they are: Francis Maude, who is becoming a combined Foreign Office / trade minister; Ros Altmann, who becomes a pension minister; George Bridges, who becomes a Cabinet Office minister; David Prior, who becomes a health minister; and Andrew Dunlop, who becomes a Scotland Office minister.

«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.

P.E.I. Finance Minister Wes Sheridan, who has championed a specific proposal to enrich the pension plan, also made no attempt to hide his emotions, saying he needs 24 hours to consider his options — and suggesting he may join Ontario.

Finance Minister Charles Sousa says the bill clears the way for the introduction on Jan. 1, 2017, of the Ontario Retirement Savings Plan, which will be mandatory for workers who do not already have a company pension plan.

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.