Frank Field

LABOUR backbench MP Frank Field has hit back at critics who claim his proposed Universal State Pension is too risky.

WHAT has taken the government so long? After nearly eight years in the political wilderness of the backbenches, Frank Field is at last being given an active part to play in the government's quest for pension reform.

THE GOVERNMENT has turned to backbench Labour MP Frank Field to advise on pension reform.

UK - Senior Tory and Labour MPs have held talks with the Unclaimed Assets Register over compensation for workers who lost pension savings when their firms failed.

UK - Backbench calls to close the Parliamentary Pension Scheme because it is too generous have been dismissed as a PR ruse by the pensions minister.

UK - An offer by some MPs to scrap their final salary pensions has been rubbished as a "token gesture" by leading consultants.

A handful of MPs want their own final salary scheme to be scrapped because it is "too generous".

UK - Some companies will be forced to wind up their pension scheme as an alternative to suspending dividends, former Labour minister Frank Field warns.