Rosie Winterton

Government could relax pensions legislation (news)

Employers may no longer be forced to put funds into their pension scheme when their organisations restructure or are taken over. The Government is looking at changing section 75 of the 2004 Pension...

PETER MCKAY: A vampire feeding on our misery

Deceit and hypocrisy are common in politics, but for Labour to suggest Shadow Chancellor George Osborne might undermine the pound by criticising Gordon Brown suggests new depths of political depravity.

'1.5m planning pension break'

People plan to stop their pension payments to save money One in 12 people are planning to stop paying into their pension during the coming two years in a bid to save money, research has shown. An estimated 1.5 million people...

Baby P: Ministers 'passed the buck'

The Government has been accused of "passing the buck" after admitting it had been warned about failings in social services in the London borough where a baby died after months of abuse. Social worker Nevres Kemal, whose lawyers...

Baby P: The whistleblowing letter

Letter sent from Equal Justice, Nevres Kemal's solicitors, to Patricia Hewitt, then Health Secretary. Copies were sent to the junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis, the Tottenham MP David Lammy, and Denise...

Baby P: Government accused of passing the buck

The Government has been accused of "passing the buck" after admitting it had been warned about failings in social services in the London borough where a baby died after months of abuse. Social worker Nevres Kemal, whose lawyers...

NO ONE IS EVER TO BLAME...

I reported a few days ago on the absolutely savage murder of a 17 month old by by his mother, her boyfriend and lodger. Sickening in the extreme. We discussed the total failure of the social services and police to deal with...

Barclays poker game over sovereign wealth

The row between Barclays and its shareholders over the bank's plan to raise new capital from The posturing comes from the investing institutions in London, which are demanding the right to subscribe the new capital themselves...

Pension reform plan worries unions

By Norma Cohen and Nicholas Timmins Opinion was divided on Wednesday over the government’s decision to review a rule regarded as a cornerstone of pension protection – with unions and independent advisers raising the alarm. At a...

PPF extends its protection of pensioners

Over a thousand people around the UK stand to receive compensation after the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) took on five new schemes in October.Last month's pension schemes transferred to the PPF include Holmes Group Retirement...

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