Liberal Democrats

George Osborne's announcement that the department for communities and local government will bear £780m in cuts will increase the scrutiny on the affordability of local government pensions, Mike Woodall warns.

The coalition government will scrap the default retirement age "as soon as possible", pensions minister Steve Webb says.

UK - The coalition government will scrap the default retirement age "as soon as possible", pensions minister Steve Webb said.

David Laws was not the only new minister to read a letter from his Labour predecessor as he took office.

Coalition government plans to investigate allowing members to dip into their personal pension pots could "signal the end of occupational pensions", Pinsent Masons warns.

After days of indecision, the final agreement forming a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was finally agreed last Tuesday (May 10), sadly, just after last week's edition of Professional Pensions went to press.

At the beginning of March, Professional Pensions interviewed the then Liberal Democrat pensions spokesman Steve Webb about his party's key pensions policies in the build up to the general election.

Gordon Brown said he accepted Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg will talk to the Tories about forming a Government before the Labour party.

The Liberal Democrats could use a coalition government with the Labour Party to force through "penal" tax policies, a lawyer fears.

Much has been made of the revolving door at the department for work and pension over the past 13 years with its steady stream of secretaries of state and pension ministers.