Parliament

Members of the House of Lords have criticised the European Court of Justice ruling on gender discrimination in insurance policies and annuities.

Shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves has been named in the Institute for Public Policy Research's (IPPR) Northern Lights Top 50 list.

George Osborne has told banks he will be forced into further action if they do not cooperate with the government on measures to curb bonuses.

Plans to scrap or reform 192 quangos, including the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) and the Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman (PPFO), has been ‘botched' according to MPs.

MP Mark Garnier has pledged to "pick up the baton and run with it" on the reintroduction of a 15 year long-stop for advisers, starting with lobbying the influential Treasury Select Committee (TSC) on which he sits.

Mark Garnier, one of the MPs who called last night's debate on the RDR, says his next step will be to lobby small business minister Mark Prisk about the potential adviser exodus after 2012.

Tell us the questions you want raised at this month's Commons debate on the RDR and we will pass them along the Westminster corridors to the two MPs who called it, Harriet Baldwin and Mark Garnier.

Members of Ireland's largest political party Fianna Fail are threatening to resign the party whip and vote against the government if it cuts state pensions.

Labour MP Fabian Hamilton has tabled an amendment to the Equitable Life (Payments) Bill to include 10,000 more annuitants in the compensation scheme.

Conservative MP Harriett Baldwin has secured a debate in Parliament on the future of regulation for independent financial advisers.