Opposition criticises pension reform delays

In yesterday’s Queen’s Speech it was announced a Pensions Bill would be shortly published, but although details of what it would include were omitted from the actual speech, it is believed re-linking the state pension to earnings in 2012 and the establishment of a Delivery Authority for Personal Accounts, are key areas of the Bill. However David Laws, Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, says welfare reform has been one of the big disaster areas of the Blair era, with much promised and little delivered. He points out "it speaks volumes” that the Prime Minist...