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The new secretary of state for work and pensions Stephen Crabb in his first outing in his new postion has argued that - "behind every statistic is a human being and perhaps sometimes in government we forget that" – and he has promised no "plann...

SNP Offer to help pensions minister resolve women’s pension inequalities. The Scottish National Party has today offered to help Pensions Minister Ros Altmann end women’s pension inequality after she said her previous attempts had bee...

Blue Prism, a U.K.-based virtual workforce company, debuted Friday on the alternative investment market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. Its share price quickly jumped to 112.5 pence, well over the initial offering price of 78 pence. The robot sof...

Vienna/Strasbourg/Warsaw, 21 March 2016 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the heads of Europe’s main intergovernmental human rights institutions call for a strong response to xenophobic attacks again...

Civil war: Britain’s ruling Conservative Party is in disarray after the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith as work and pensions secretary. Duncan Smith’s move — to protest cuts to disability benefits in last week’s budget &mdash...

Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has criticised remarks made today by Iain Duncan Smith on the Andrew Marr programme, regarding the triple lock on the state pension.   Dot Gibson, NPC gener...

The Scottish National Party has today described Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation as a “distraction” from the real issue of cuts to the welfare and disability budget.   Stewart Hosie MP, Economy spokesperson and Deputy Leader of...

Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as work and pensions secretary, according to the BBC denouncing £4bn of planned cuts to disability benefits as "indefensible". He complains of pressure to "salami slice" welfare, saying the latest cuts were a...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee Committee launches new inquiry on early drawing of state pension In its report on Communicating state pension age changes, published on 15 March 2016, the Committee called on the Government to explo...

George Osborne’s budgets are an exercise in delayed gratification. There are always promises of pain now, in exchange for pleasure later. But, somehow, economic circumstances — and electoral imperatives —  always see the goodie...