Sentences with phrase «pensions secretary said»

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary said, â $ œThe benefits system is a deeply ineffective and costly way of subsidising people's lives.

But the work and pensions secretary said problems had been solved and the benefit, currently being piloted, was «succeeding» and «progressing».

It comes just hours after the Work and Pensions Secretary said he will stand on a joint «blue collar» ticket with Business Secretary Sajid Javid.

It's not extreme to want democratic government in your country,» the former work and pensions secretary said.

... The Work and Pensions Secretary said he had «lost faith» in the ability of Whitehall mandarins to deliver the flagship Universal Credit scheme, and had now turned to outside experts.»

The former Work and Pensions Secretary said that any migration system had to regain control of the numbers of people coming to the UK

The Work and Pensions Secretary said individual states should be able to fix the number of EU migrants they let through their borders.

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said at the time she had not agreed to stand aside and claimed she had been a victim of a «bullying culture of the worst kind».

The Government's own Work and Pensions Secretary said the budget was «deeply unfair» as he spectacularly resigned 48 hours after it was unveiled.

As a poll found that 82 % of Tories believed that Miller should lose her job over her expenses, the work and pensions secretary said he was «very open» to a proposal by parliament's expenses watchdog to introduce independent regulation of MPs.

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

«One of the weaknesses that we've had recently is that people worry that Labour isn't serious about security, that it's a lesser issue for Jeremy as it were,» the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said.

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.

In a speech to the IPPR think - tank, the work and pensions secretary said hard - working families should not have to support people who refuse to find work.

«Encouraged by a nod and wink from his front bench colleagues, one of their supporters in a national newspaper talked of our «final solution» for the poor,» the work and pensions secretary said.

The work and pensions secretary said it was «deeply regrettable» and he is now preparing a report for the Electoral Commission.

The Tory Work and Pensions secretary said 75 % of people who have had their benefits stopped under his department's cruel sanctions regime said it helped them «focus and get on.»

«We have become, in many corners of the country, with our voters, a laughing stock, and we have got to change that,» the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said.

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 work and pensions secretary said last night he was sorry for failing to declare the full amount and source of the donations to the Electoral Commission.

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:

The work and pensions secretary said the new body would «come down like a ton of bricks» on absent parents who refused to pay maintenance for their children.

The former work and pensions secretary said he was disappointed with the decision by Javid to join the remain camp — because his Tory colleague had privately said that he backed Brexit.

Work and pensions secretary says figure of 1.7 million unemployed is signal that EU referendum uncertainty is hitting jobs

Work and pensions secretary says he will «fight every step of the way» after EU executive launches court case

Not exact matches

The party said Abrahams had agreed to stand aside as shadow work and pensions secretary while an «employment issue» is investigated by the top of the party.

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said: «Earnings are now rising at 3 percent and inflation is running at about zero.

The new Work and Pensions Secretary and Christian Stephen Crabb has said that God's care for widows and... More

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».

Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne said the report showed the coalition's welfare revolution was «descending into total chaos».

Commenting on the Welsh teaching union's decision to strike on October 5 over pension changes, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:

«People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their talent and enthusiasm from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said.

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.

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.

«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.

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».

Speaking today at the Policy Exchange, shadow work and pensions secretary Chris Grayling said the welfare state must act as a safety net and not a way of life.

A source close to work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith was quoted by the Mail said Labour is an «absolute disgrace».

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.»

The former director general of Saga, who only held the ministerial brief for 14 months and was known to have had a rocky relationship with former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said the triple lock had «fulfilled its purpose» and pensioner households were now «no more likely to be poor than other age groups».

«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.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Only the NASUWT has continued to challenge governments across the UK on the unacceptable changes made to teachers» pension provision.

Labour Party spokesman said that «she has been relieved of her post as shadow work and pensions secretary.»

The shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, said the UK social security system «was never designed for the levels of migration we are now seeing».

[325] The SNP has also criticised Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, for saying [326] a future UK Labour government would be even tougher on benefits than the Cameron ministry.

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.

«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.

The shadow work and pensions secretary is said to be keen and he is fancied by some Labour MPs — even if the public have never heard of him.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said his department paid the living wage and backed the idea, however.

However, opposition MPs condemned the proposals as too timid, and shadow work and pensions secretary Philip Hammond said they would be a «huge disappointment» to the 1.5 million families stuck on the current CSA system and expecting action.