What to do about the Pension Crisis
05 July 2004
In a speech to Politeia, David Willetts MP highlights the scale of the problems facing pensions in the years and decades ahead, and offers some radical new solutions to the problem.

Family Futures
17 June 2004
In a speech to the National Family & Parenting Institute Conference, David Willetts explains fresh Conservative thinking on families with young children.

2M pensioners lose out under Labour
21 April 2004
Over 2 million pensioners have lost out under Labour

Pensions and Post Offices
24 March 2004
In a speech to the Commons, David Willetts criticises government plans to prevent pensioners from continuing to receive Pension and Benefit payments through a Post Office Card Account

Pensions and the Budget
23 March 2004
In a speech to the House of Commons, David Willetts delivers a damning critique of the implications of the Budget for the Department of Work & Pensions

Comfortable Life for Pensioners
06 March 2004
In a speech to the Conservative Spring Conference in Harrogate, David Willetts outlines how a Conservative Government would restore dignity, independence and security for Britain's older people.

Tackling the Pensions Crisis
20 January 2004
Our pensions are affordable and will help people save Shadow work and pensions secretary David Willetts explains how the Conservatives would ensure a fairer system

Millions are 'Left out and Left Behind'
21 July 2003
New report by David Willetts MP, Nicholas Hillman and Adam Bogdanor - 'Left out, Left Behind'.

Lone parents let down by the new deal
25 June 2003
Willetts: Attacks Government claims on the impact of the new deal on lone parents.

Poorest families lose out
25 June 2003
Willetts: Poorest families lose out under Gordon Brown's means-tests.

Government failing poorest pensioners
23 June 2003
Labour's means-testing of benefits is failing to help poorest people

Contracting out in Jeopardy
19 June 2003
Willetts: Contracting out is in jeopardy

Ministers covered-up pensions shambles
18 June 2003
Willetts: Ministers have covered-up the latest pensions shambles

Pension fund woes
12 June 2003
Willetts: New figures highlight pension fund woes

Proposals not enough to end crisis
11 June 2003
Willetts: New pension proposals are not enough to end the crisis. 11 June 2003

Scale of tax credit crisis
28 May 2003
Willetts: Shocking new evidence on the scale of the tax credit crisis.

Six point plan for pensions
23 May 2003
Willetts: Conservatives announce a six point plan for pensions.

Workers same pension rights as managers
22 May 2003
Willetts: Conservatives would give workers the same pension rights as managers.

Pension benefit spending underestimated
20 May 2003
Willetts: Government underestimates future pension benefit expenditure by £100 billion.

Tax Credit Shambles
28 April 2003
Willetts: Government must increase access to Social Fund loans to reduce financial distress of families entitled to Tax Credits. 28 April 2003

Hidden stealth tax for pensioners
14 April 2003
Willetts: The budgets hidden stealth tax for pensioners. 14 April 2003

Government fail to help disabled
11 April 2003
Willetts: The Government must do more to help people with disabilities find work. 11 April 2003

Flaws in the Revenue's pension forecasts
10 April 2003
Willetts: New evidence shows flaws in the Inland Revenue's pensions forecasts. 10 April 2003

Labour are failing lone parents
08 April 2003
Willetts: The Government are failing out-of-work lone parents and their targets are out of reach. 8 April 2003

Brown's attack on two earner families
07 April 2003
Willetts: Brown's tax attack on 200,000 two earner families. 7 April 2003

Companies not prepared for Tax Credits
06 April 2003
Willetts: Nearly half of companies have not prepared for the new Tax Credits. 6 April 2003

£1.4 million limit is flawed
01 April 2003
Willetts: The proposed £1.4 million on individual's saving funds will provide less annuity than claimed. 1 April 2003

£5billion benefit take-up missed
27 March 2003
Willetts: There is a significant increase in the number of people who are missing out on benefits to which they are entitled. 27 March 2003

Parliamentary Pension Fund suffering
24 March 2003
Willetts: Parliamentary Pension Fund is suffering in the same way as other funded pensions. 24 march 2003

Poverty Figuers show Labour isnt Working
13 March 2003
Willetts: The new figures reveal Labour's failure to to tackle poverty. 13 March 2003

New figures on take-up of tax credits
24 February 2003
Willetts: Highlights the low take-up of tax credits and offers ways to improve support for low income families. 24 February 2003

Tax credits do not tackle poverty
23 February 2003
Willetts: Gordon Brown's policies on tax credits do not help to tackle poverty - they have created complexity and fraud. 23 February 2003

Ministers Misuse Pension Statistics
22 January 2003
Willetts: Calls the Statistics Commission to investigate the misuse of pension statistics by Ministers. 22 January 2003

Absurd cold weather benefits system.
09 January 2003
Willetts: Calls the Government to look at the absurdities of the cold weather benefits system. 9 January 2003

Lowest take-up rate on record
01 January 2003
David Willetts issues new figures on the take-up of Labour's flagship tax credits. 1 January 2003

£142,000 needed to be free of means test
28 December 2002
Willetts: Pensioners need over £142,000 to be free of means testing. 28 December 2002

Green Paper fails to aid pensions crisis
17 December 2002
David Willetts: The pensions Green Paper does not tackle the scale of the pensions crisis. 17 December 2002

Letter to Andrew Smith
13 December 2002
Willetts: I am writing to Andrew Smith to find out more about the Government's breach of faith with people who have delayed taking their pensions. 13 Dec 2002

Labour's Child Poverty Failure
12 December 2002
The number of children lifted out of poverty since 1997 is around half the number claimed by ministers. 12 Dec 2002

Benefits Information Needs Improvement
11 December 2002
Willetts: Ministers must improve the benefits information available from Government helplines. 11 Dec 2002

Money Wasted On Brown's Pet Tax Credits
05 December 2002
Willetts: £1 billion lost in tax credit red tape. 5 Dec 2002

UK Problem Of Youth Unemployment
03 December 2002
Willetts: UK Youth Unemployment higher than in Germany. 3 Dec 2002

Continuing Age Discrimination At Work
03 December 2002
Willetts: More older people are out of work under Labour. 3 Dec 2002

Birmingham Revisited
28 November 2002
On Friday 29 November 2002, David Willetts will revisit Birmingham to see the impact of Government policies on vulnerable people. 28 Nov 2002

Failure of Government's Schemes
25 November 2002
Willetts: It's time for a crackdown on crackdowns. 25 Nov 2002

Sales Of Stakeholder Pensions Stall
22 November 2002
David Willetts: Government's targets not met as no more than 100 000 out of the Government's target group of 5 million take out stakeholder pensions. 22 Nov 2002

Government Letting Pensioners Down
20 November 2002
David Willetts: The Government has been failing pensioners in need. 20 Nov 2002

Disabled Being Failed By Labour
18 November 2002
David Willetts: Out of work disabled let down by Labour. 18 Nov 2002

Willetts Calls For Pensions Reform
11 November 2002
David Willetts: Government must act to reform pensions. 11 Nov 2002

Brown's Bogus Crackdown On Workshy
01 November 2002
Willetts: The Chancellor's welfare-to-work policies are ineffectual. 1 Nov 2002

Pensions Crisis Must Be Tackled Now
24 October 2002
Willetts: A Royal Commission to investigate the pensions crisis will take too long to be an effective response. 24 Oct 2002

Welfare Spending Soars By 50%
23 October 2002
Willetts: The new figues on welfare spending are staggering. They show unprecedented increases in spending. 23 Oct 2002

Government Cuts Pension Saving Estimate
22 October 2002
Willetts: Figures in the new ONS report show that pension saving is at half the level claimed by the Government. 22 Oct 2002

Housing Benefit In Need Of Reform
17 October 2002
Willetts: Labour must tackle immediate Housing Benefit crisis. 17 Oct 2002

Willetts Comments On The NAPF Report
07 October 2002
Willetts: The NAPF Report offers a bold vision for pension reform. 7 Oct 2002

Savings Revolution
04 October 2002
At the Conservative Party Conference, David Willetts announces a new plan to offer cash help for young people to get on to the housing ladder. 4 Oct 2002

NAPF Report Welcomed By Willetts
04 October 2002
Willetts: NAPF Report shows developing consensus on pensions reform. 4 Oct 2002

Pensioners: Labour's Forgotten Millions
30 September 2002
Willetts: Pensioners are Labour's forgotten millions. They are being left out by Labour's policies. 30 Sept 2002

Labour Must End The CSA Chaos
27 September 2002
Willetts: One more hit to thousands of families, Labour must end the CSA Chaos. 27 Sept 2002

Misleading Claims On Child Poverty
18 September 2002
Willetts: Ministers are making misleading claims on child poverty. Today's annual report on poverty demolishes Labour's claims to have lifted over a million children out of poverty. 18 Sept 2002

Willetts To Address Policy Exchange
17 September 2002
Willetts to deliver a speech entitled "Making Sense of Society". 17 Sept 2002

Marriage Remains Popular
17 September 2002
Willetts tells the Conservative think-tank Policy Exchange: Marriage is still popular but people take longer to tie the knot. 17 Sept 2002

Millions Fail To Claim Tax Credits
16 September 2002
Willetts: Nothing new from the Chancellor, as millions fail to claim tax credits. We need a simpler system that families can understand. 16 Sept 2002

More Advertising For Tax Credits
16 September 2002
Willetts: More advertising for tax credits is not the answer to low take-up. The Government's previous tax credit advertising campaign has failed. 16 Sept 2002

Government's Failure On Fraud
05 September 2002
David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has released new figures which show that the number of prosecutions for benefit fraud remains lower than in 1997/8. 5 Sept 2002

Ministers Must Tackle Benefit Fraud
28 August 2002
David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, is releasing new figures that show the extent of the Government’s failure to cut benefit fraud. 28 Aug 2002

Government Poverty Measure Insufficient
26 August 2002
Willetts: The current definition of poverty is narrow and financial. 26 Aug 2002

Pensioners To Lose Home Visits
23 August 2002
Willetts: Millions of pensioners wil lose access to direct assistance under Pension Service. 23 Aug 2002

Willetts Responds to Pickering Report
11 July 2002
"The Government must do far more to boost our savings because millions of people are facing an impoverished retirement.†11 July 2002

Pension Crisis Summit
24 June 2002
The TUC, the CBI, the National Association of Pension Funds, the Association of British Insurers and Age Concern will all be attending the Pensions crisis summit on Thursday 27th June. 24 June 2002

Government Must Tackle Pensions Crisis
17 June 2002
Fewer than 4 in 10 final salary pension schemes are still open to new employees according to new figures announced by the Association of Consulting Actuaries. 17 June 2002

Willetts Comments On TUC Proposals
17 June 2002
Although I doubt the merits of their approach they do at least recognise there is a problem which needs to be addressed. 17 June 2002

Ministers Must Fix Housing Benefit Mess
12 June 2002
Responding to the report by the Audit Commission on Housing Benefit, David Willetts calls for Ministers to tackle the problem now before the introduction of new credits further increases the complexity of the system. 12 June 2002

Tony Blair Gets His Figures Wrong!
12 June 2002
During Prime Minister's Question Time Tony Blair suggested that the total number of young people on the dole was down to 4,500 as a result of the New Deal. The real figure is closer to 250,000. 12 June 2002

Willetts Comments On Cabinet Reshuffle
29 May 2002
Following the resignation of Stephen Byers, David welcomes the challenge, both to Alistair Darling in his new role as Transport Secretary and to Andrew Smith, Darling's successor at the Department for Work and Pensions. 29 May 2002

Labour Has Caused The Pension Crisis
24 May 2002
This latest discussion on compulsory pensions is a reflection of the damage that Labour has done to pensions since they came into power. 24 May 2002

Government Estimates All Over The Place
16 May 2002
Government does not have accurate figures available, it is no wonder they do not have a policy to tackle the decline in our funded pensions. 16 May 2002

Willetts Stops Out All Night!
13 May 2002
Some of our most vulnerable citizens continue their struggles to find shelter for the night. I want to see at firsthand what they are experiencing. 13 May 2002

Willetts: New Figures Show The True Cost
08 May 2002
'This is an expensive and embarrassing failure. Ministers must now say if they still plan to extend the scheme'. 8 May 2002

Advertising Costs Rise Ten Fold
01 May 2002
Before 1997, less than £5 million a year was spent on advertising by the old Department of Social Security. In the year before the 1997 election, the annual figure was £3.7 million.

One Nation Visit
17 April 2002
The latest in his series of One Nation Visits, David visits Kent to experience first hand the problems faced by those living and working in hard-pressed communites. 17 April 2002

Pension Credit: Ministers Must Respond
12 April 2002
The Work and Pensions Select Committee question whether the State Second Pension has any future once the Pension Credit it introduced. 12 April 2002

Tax Credits: Do They Add Up?
11 April 2002
In his latest pamphlet David suggests Ministers have missed their poverty target. 11 April 2002

The Pension Credit
21 March 2002
As means-testing extends up the income scale, the incentive to invest in pensions or other savings products is blunted. 21 March 2002

Pension Credit: Statement
21 March 2002
Willetts: Around a third of eligible pensioners (600,000 people) did not claim the Minimum Income Guarantee in 1999/00. And the appalling complexity of the Pension Credit is bound to make the problem of low take-up even worse. 21 March 2002

One Day in Birmingham
11 March 2002
Writing for The House magazine, David Willetts tells of his experience in Birmingham as part of the continued One nation hearings

The Collapse In Funded Pensions
Willetts: It is Gordon Brown and not employers who are to blame for the collapse in pensions.

Willetts visits U.S.
Willetts visits U.S. to learn more about guaranteed pensions