Steve Webb

The DWP will look into improving annuity rates for people with pension pots of under £5,000, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

At first we thought we'd been asked to list our greatest heroes and villains of all time. Gene Hackman and Vladimir Kozak (Google him) were on that list. Turns out we had to limit it to 2010 and financial services…

The coalition government's cuts to child benefit for anyone earning over £44,000 is ‘a worry' and answers from the Treasury are ‘not good enough', pensions minister Steve Webb has been caught saying.

In the spirit of the traditional Christmas panto, we have come up with our definitive list of heroes and villains of the pensions world for 2010. Question is: Do you agree with us?

Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Rainham and Dagenham, has called on pensions minister Steve Webb to encourage transparency from pension fund managers.

Shadow pensions minister Rachel Reeves yesterday challenged Steve Webb over the elimination of conflicts of interest for NEST asset managers.

Michael O'Higgins has been named as David Norgrove's replacement as chairman of The Pensions Regulator.

Steve Webb has said the government will not give private sector pension schemes the power to override scheme rules to shift from RPI to CPI indexation.

Pensions minister Steve Webb will today launch a consultation on whether the government should allow scheme trustees to switch the indexation of pension schemes from RPI to the traditionally lower measure of CPI.

An industry-wide consultation on the RPI to CPI switch for pension schemes will be published tomorrow, Steve Webb says.