Parliament

Nationalist parties called on the government to "reverse its unfair changes to public sector pensions" in a bad-tempered debate in the House of Commons yesterday.

The lack of transparency on charges has created a "pensions fog" that is deterring people from saving, a Conservative MP has said.

Government plans to include pension contributions when calculating workers' entitlement to tax credits risks undermining the key aims of auto-enrolment, argue Labour peers.

The Pensions Bill has cleared both Houses of Parliament and will become law after a last-ditch Labour attempt to amend it was rejected in the Lords.

The Pensions Bill which raises the state pension age to 66 by 2020 has passed its third reading in the House of Commons with 287 votes to 242.

MPs have passed a motion transferring the responsibility for setting their pension payments to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).

Constraints put on the National Employment Savings Trust risk undermining the objectives of auto-enrolment, warn some of the legislation's main architects.

MPs are set to undergo the same pensions reform as the wider public sector and have a new scheme imposed on them by 2015, it was announced yesterday.

The Labour opposition should have come up with a solution to help women disproportionately hit by the rise in the state pension age to 66 by 2020, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

A group of expatriates fighting for their pensions to be indexed equally with those of UK pensioners has taken the campaign to Parliament.