14 May 2010
Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb has been appointed as pensions
minister. Mr Webb was formerly Liberal Democrat work and pensions
spokesman, and is one of the most experienced politicians in this
area.
Mr Webb was a senior spokesman for social security, a brief
which then included pensions issues, from 1997 to 2001 before
becoming frontbench spokesman for social security and welfare in
1999.
In June 2001 he became Liberal Democrat spokesman on work and
pensions - a position he held until May 2005, when he became a
health spokesman for the party.
Following spells as environment, energy, food and rural affairs
spokesman and climate change and energy spokesman; Mr Webb returned
to the work and pensions brief in January 2009.
