Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary did»

The former Welsh and work and pensions secretary did not face a police investigation because of his late declaration of donations to his deputy leadership campaign when Gordon Brown came to power, but he was found guilty of «serious» failings by the parliamentary standards authority.

Not exact matches

The former work and pensions secretary, who resigned his Cabinet post in June 2009 as part of a plot to oust Gordon Brown as leader, has decided he doesn't want to spend his life in frontline politics.

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 report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a right - wing thinktank, agrees with the principles behind the work and pensions secretary's plans, but insists the reforms do not go far enough.

Work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb said: «He held his own, I thought he explained in a very clear and cool way just why staying part of Europe is the best thing for Britain, why our economic prosperity depends vitally on being part of that single market of 500 million consumers, and I think the Prime Minister did a very good job tonight.»

«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.

Why did the Conservatives send Esther McVey back to the Department for Work and Pensions as secretary of state when she attracted so much hostility while there in the last Parliament?

«This report confirms that this government has become obsessed with meeting centrally set targets at the expense of delivering the benefits and services which will do most to lift pensioners out of poverty,» said shadow work and pension secretary Philip Hammond.

Gordon Brown does not have the ultimate power over changes to the pension system, according to the work and pensions secretary.

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said he everyone who «does the wrong thing» should face consequences, and that no one was «above the law».

Paterson's secretary, Larry Schwartz, and NYC OTB President Greg Rayburn held a conference call earlier today to reiterate that the cash - strapped betting operation will shut down if the Legislature doesn't approve its restructuring plan, costing thousands of jobs and leaving the state on the hook for $ 540 million worth of pension liabilities and $ 100 million in outstanding bankruptcy claims.

Liam Byrne, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, conceded the news was «welcome» but insisted there was still much work to be done.

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».

Yvette Cooper is the only Labour figure who has made it into the coverage today in her capacity as shadow work and pensions secretary, which incidentally can't be doing her profile as a potential shadow chancellor any home.

«Under universal credit more people will receive support for childcare than they do now,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said.

He added that he now wants the current culture secretary Sajid Javid to do the same, along with work and pensions sec Iain Duncan Smith and even David Cameron:

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.»

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

Over 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding Iain Duncan Smith live on # 53 a week, after the work and pensions secretary said he would be able to make do on the money.

The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said last week he was «ready to do anything I can to save and serve the party».

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has hit out at the Lib Dems» U-turn on the bedroom tax policy, suggesting that they didn't oppose a previous bill to scrap it:

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This survey shows that NUT members do not accept the Government's arguments for reducing teachers» pensions.

It has been welcomed by campaigners as a first step, but Iain Duncan Smith, the former work and pensions secretary, has said it does not go far enough.

Whitehall sources have expressed «surprise» at Archbishop Welby's public criticism of the government's plans, saying he did not raise his concerns when he met Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith on Tuesday.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many British citizens did not pass the habitual residency test in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Intervening on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons, his Labour shadow, Helen Goodman asked: «Could you explain to the House why cutting tax credits for large families is a fair thing to do when it will be concentrated... on families where children are living in poverty, on Roman Catholic families, on Catholics from other minorities.

Debbie Abrahams, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: «The increasing numbers of zero points assessments raise real concerns about the accuracy of the assessment process, as do the thousands upon thousands of wrong decisions that are overturned at mandatory reconsideration and in the courts.»

Former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Smith has already indicated that if he does not get the most nominations he will step aside - but Ms eagle has refused to make the same commitment.

Labour has to do more to explain its policies and show voters that the party is on their side, Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, has said.

«People who are in work on low marginal incomes are paying quite significant sums in tax to help people who are in really difficult circumstances through the benefit system,» said the Work and Pensions Secretary, «and we all applaud that, that's what we should do.

«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.

According to Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, the party had said from the start that the rate was temporary, because it was a «short - term measure to target poverty and tax credits are the best way of doing that».

The Work and Pensions Secretary has urged wealthy pensioners who do not need to receive benefits to volunteer to hand back the money to the government.

«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.

James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said: «Now we know that not only would the Conservatives do nothing but sit back and watch the recession «take its course» - they actually believe it would be «good for us».

It's even a legitimate fear about the U.S. public education system — one that the past 24 hours has done little to quell, particularly since President Trump's Education Secretary choice, billionaire Betsy DeVos, was approved 12 - 11 Tuesday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).

First comes a semantic change with administrative undertones: out goes the CSA — it never had a statutory existence: everything in CSA 1991 was done in the name of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions — in comes C - MEC.

The Court of Appeal is not necessarily precluded from hearing appeals by the secretary of state for work and pensions on jurisdictional points against a decision of a social security commissioner, notwithstanding the fact that he was the successful appellant before the commissioner; a social security commissioner does not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a legally qualified panel member who has refused to extend time or who has struck out a proposed appeal for want of jurisdiction.

That's why it's so important we tell the senators who are responsible for vetting his nomination — members of the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee — that we oppose his nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services and we urge them to do the same.

We must tell the senators who are responsible for vetting Price's nomination — members of the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee — that we oppose his nomination as HHS secretary and urge them to do the same.