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Article: Harman says Government was wrong to reject pension verdict.(minister for constitutional affairs Harriet Harman )(Brief article)
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- January 11, 2007
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Potential future deputy prime minister Harriet Harman has distanced herself from the Government's handling of the occupational pension crisis and admitted it was wrong to reject the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report.
Harman, who is minister for constitutional affairs, is the first member of the Government to question the Department for Work and Pensions' handling of the debacle.
Harman was questioned at a North-west Norfolk constituency Labour party meeting recently by 11 members of the Pensions Action Group who lost their pensions when the Albert Fisher Group went into liquidation. Victim Alan Gosling asked Harman why the Government had rejected the ...