A life in the year of the DWP

Janice Turner applauds a very busy 11 months from Webb and Co

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Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions must be counting the days before Christmas. This year must surely have been the busiest for them ever, with proposal after initiative after announcement.

It wasn't always like this of course. For several years the officials at the DWP would welcome their new pensions minister, bring them up to speed on the nuts, bolts and gremlins in the world of pe...

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