Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary in»

Iain Duncan Smith will stay as work and pensions secretary in Mr Cameron's new cabinet.

Mr Smith resigned as shadow work and pensions secretary in the mass resignations from the leader's front bench last month.

After serving on the Shadow Cabinet, he became Education and Employment Secretary in 1997, Home Secretary in 2001, and Work and Pensions Secretary in 2005.

«Duncan Smith has presided over years of suffering, and surely ranks as the most hated Work and Pensions Secretary in living memory - epitomising Tory arrogance and indifference to the effect of brutal cuts.

Another rising star of the 2010 intake, the MP for Leeds West was appointed shadow chief secretary to the Treasury in 2011 and shadow work and pensions secretary in 2013.

[1] Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education and Employment Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election.

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Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

Commenting on the judicial review on the indexation of public sector pensions, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The NUT, along with other unions, is challenging the Government in a judicial review at the High Court.

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.

General secretary Jonathan Baume said his First Division union, which represents the top seven civil service pay grades, was striking for the first time in its history because members are «angry about what is being proposed» on pensions.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith reportedly had a stand - up row with chief whip Patrick McLoughlin about the issue, in which he threatened to resign if put in a similar position again.

«Damian Green [the Work and Pensions Secretary] seemed to indicate in Questions the other day that he thought this was a somewhat old - fashioned approach to reducing child poverty,» he says.

This resulted in the work and pensions secretary David Gauke agreeing to provide the papers to a select committee before Christmas.

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.»

Tens of thousands of teachers across the north - west will be taking strike action today (Thursday 27 June) as a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions» dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

«Despite all the scaremongering, research now shows that of those housing benefit claimants affected by the cap, a third said they would now be looking for a job,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote in a letter to the Daily Mail.

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?

Labour is expected to attempt to force Eric Pickles and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith to answer an urgent question on the issue today in the Commons.

However, Labour has pointed out that there will be much lower in - work benefit payments for new claimants put on universal credit — the system championed by the work and pensions secretary, Duncan Smith.

As the war of words raging at the top of the Conservative party intensified over the weekend, Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, accused the prime minister of having a «low opinion of the British people» in doubting the country's ability to go it alone.

In opposition she has been shadow foreign secretary and shadow home secretary, as well as shadow minister for work and pensions and for women and equalities.

He subsequently served in Labour leader Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Shadow Foreign Secretary.

He also claimed that Smith had recently said he was «very happy» in the shadow cabinet - moments before he resigned as shadow work and pensions secretary.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber: «The speech contains important issues to welcome - restoring the state pension link with earnings, cracking down on high - risk activities in the City, and an extra push on green energy.

Others - including former business secretary Vince Cable - suggested that Green was more like Robert Maxwell, famed for his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund and his mysterious death at sea in 1991.

Speaking at an event in London, shadow work and pension secretary Liam Byrne argued that many of the government's planned welfare cuts will cost more than they save.

Corbyn's speech follows comments by former shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves, in which she suggested that there would be riots, if immigration wasn't reduced.

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».

The chancellor confirmed he was «in effect ruling it out» after the Telegraph newspaper reported work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith had offered to cut welfare spending by an extra # 3 billion a year.

Another Remainer has joined the fray in the form of Stephen Crabb, the work and pensions secretary, although he is seen as an also - ran at the moment.

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.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggested that Maria Miller is undergoing a Tory backlash for her role in the same - sex marriage Bill.

In a statement to the Commons yesterday, immediately after PMQs, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander talked of a «generous offer» being made by the Government to reform public service pensions.

Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, insisted in an interview with the Today programme on Thursday morning that the policy was not punitive but was designed to get people the skills they needed to secure a job.

In an interview with yesterday's Guardian, with the headline, «X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith», the Work and Pensions Secretary said:

«In the context of protecting the most vulnerable, let me first urge Ministers to continue to give full support to the welfare reform measures that are being pushed through by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

The prime minister has said he expects Peter Hain to remain in government but accepts the work and pensions secretary's future lies out of his hands.

Work and pensions secretary James Purnell proposed an amendment to the pensions bill which will allow people to buy up to an additional six years of voluntary national insurance contributions, over and above those permitted under the current time limits, in order to enjoy a higher state pension.

Responding to news that the largest unions in the country will ballot for industrial action over pensions, Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka said:

Shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned this was the «financial equivalent of kicking it into the long grass», and said it was the introduction of means - testing by Labour that had reduced people's savings and led to today's problems in the first place.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said:

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.

The NASUWT - the Teachers» Union has written to the Secretary of State for Education to demand that there is immediate implementation for teachers of the decision relayed to the NASUWT by HM Treasury to equalise adult survivor benefits in public service pension schemes for same - sex married and civil partners.

The former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has gathered enough support from his fellow MPs to join Angela Eagle in challenging Jeremy Corbyn.

The Work and Pensions Secretary said that the planned universal benefits system would be means - tested on household income, rather than individual earnings, to iron out the anomalies in Mr Osborne's plan.

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.

Mr Hain, who resigned as Work and Pensions Secretary last year over allegations about the funding of his deputy leadership campaign which were later dismissed, also suggested Labour had been too «caught up» in the success of the City to hold the financial system to account.

In his scathing parting shot at the Chancellor, the Work and Pensions Secretary revealed the cuts were due to pressure from the Treasury to «salami slice» his budget.