Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary john»

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton said he wanted to encourage more couples to settle their own affairs, and from 2008 will remove the requirement for all parents claiming benefits to use the government service.

Pensions secretary John Hutton said at the time that the new organisation would be «tougher on parents who do not pay up.»

Problems continued under the new system and in December 2006, Work and Pensions secretary John Hutton announced plans to set up the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) to take responsibility for the UK's child maintenance system.

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton agreed it would be a «good thing» for the Labour party and the country for Mr Brown to stand against a credible opponent.

However, work and pensions secretary John Hutton told BBC One's Sunday AM yesterday: «This looks like «back to basics» all over again and I can't believe that is where the Tories want to end up on this.»

The proposals are largely based on the recommendations of Lord Turner's three - year inquiry into pensions, and were described by work and pensions secretary John Hutton as a «comprehensive, integrated package of reform».

Announcing the news, work and pensions secretary John Hutton said the extension of DDA protection showed tackling discrimination was «right at the heart of the government's social agenda».

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».

Not exact matches

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.

Witness (es): Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Gemma Tetlow, Programme Director, Pensions, Saving and Public Finances, Institute for Fiscal Studies; John Cridland CBE, Director General, CBI, Professor Doug McWilliams, founder of the Centre for Economics and Business Research and Nicola Smith, Head of Economic and Social Affairs Department, Trades Union Congress; Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury

He is followed by the Health Secretary Alan Johnson (18.1 per cent); the backbencher Jon Cruddas (11.3 per cent); the Justice Secretary Jack Straw (9.6 per cent); Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman (6.6 per cent); the left - winger John McDonnell (6.5 per cent); the Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (3.2 per cent); and the Schools Secretary Ed Balls (2 per cent).

They'll also talk about the nomination of Rep. John McHugh to be Secretary of the Army, ethics reform proposals, pension fund losses and much more.

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

On the pensions secretary's welfare reforms, Sir John noted that unless IDS «is very lucky, which he may not be, or a genius, which is unproven, he may get some of it wrong.»

Prime Minister: David Cameron Deputy PM & First Secretary of State: William Hague Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne Leader of the Commons: Ken Clarke Home Secretary: David Davis Foreign Secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind Business & Employment Secretary: John Redwood Communities & Social Justice Secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Cabinet Office Minister: Francis Maude Defence Secretary: Dr Liam Fox Environment and Energy Secretary: Oliver Letwin Leader of the Lords: Lord Strathclyde Nations Secretary: Lord Trimble Education Secretary: Michael Gove Health Secretary: Chris Grayling Women & Equalities Secretary: Theresa May Pensions & Welfare Reform Secretary: David Willetts Trade & International Development Secretary: Alan Duncan Justice Secretary & Lord Chancellor: Dominic Greive Transport Secretary: Damian Green Farming, Food & Rural Affairs Secretary: Nick Herbert Housing & Local Government Secretary: Philip Hammond Culture Secretary: Julie Kirkbride

The development potentially leaves just four Cabinet ministers firmly backing Brexit — Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, Commons Leader Chris Grayling, Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers, and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale.

Leader of the Opposition: David Cameron Shadow Chancellor: George Osborne Shadow Foreign Secretary: William Hague Shadow Home Secretary: Dominic Grieve Shadow Justice Secretary: Ken Clarke Shadow Business Secretary: John Redwood Party Chairman: Chris Grayling Shadow Work and Pensions: Nick Herbert

Cabinet veterans Among the other Cabinet veterans, Douglas Alexander takes over the Work and Pensions portfolio, John Denham takes over as Shadow Business Secretary, David Miliband's campaign coordinator Jim Murphy take Defence, and Hilary Benn takes over as Shadow Leader of the Commons.

11.07 am: Cameron has got Theresa May, the shadow work and pensions secretary, and John Maples with him, sitting in the front seats behind where Cameron is sitting.

* Alistair Darling, Chancellor; Alan Johnson; Home Secretary; David Miliband, Foreign Secretary; Lord Mandelson, Business Secretary; Bob Ainsworth, Defence Secretary; Yvette Cooper, Department of Work and Pensions; Ed Balls, Children's Secretary; John Denham, Communities Secretary; Andy Burnham, Culture Secretary; Peter Hain, Welsh Secretary; Douglas Alexander, International Development Secretary; Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary; Lord Adonis, Transport Secretary; Ben Bradshaw, Culture Secretary; Harriet Harman, Leader of the House of Commons; Jack Straw, Justice Secretary; Ed Miliband, Energy Secretary; Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland Secretary; Baroness Royall, Leader of the House of Lords; Tessa Jowell, Cabinet Office Minister; Jim Murphy, Scottish Secretary; Liam Byrne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury;

Two other guests to whom I'll be talking are the Conservative's Policy Director, Oliver Letwin and now after the Labour conference week is over, John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary.

by James McGinnis Bucks County Courier Times Seventy days into the state budget stalemate, Gov. Tom Wolf is offering major concessions to Republicans in Harrisburg, including a 401 (k)- style pension plan for new state workers, John Hanger, secretary of planning and...

In 2014 I was contacted by Major General John Moore - Bick CBE DL, the then General Secretary of the Forces Pension Society in connection with the Society's «Justice For Widows» campaign.