New Minister “for” Disabled, Mike Penning, defends the WCA

DWP ‘Minister for Work’ (Mark Hoban and Chris Grayling’s successor) Esther McVey-O-Gram

 
Westminster DWP Questions, 14th October 2013

Former Banker Rachel Reeves, spoke in her new role for the first time since being moved from the shadow Treasury team to shadow DWP. 

Off-message: If Rachel Reeves had promised to get as tough on tax avoidance in her previous job as she is promising to be on benefits now, Labour might have had more credibility.

The question session saw several frontbenchers speak for the first time since the recent reshuffle.

Expenses: Tory MP and New Shadow DWP Minister Mike Penning Claimed for Dog Bowl 

Poised for a new career in lap dancing? Esther McVey

Lord David Fraud

Chris Bryant, now a shadow work and pensions minister, appeared to suffer a moment of confusion amid the various personnel changes.

He referred to the work and pensions minister in the upper House, Lord Freud, as “Lloyd Fraud“, before describing it as “a Freudian slip”.

Lord Fraud on Risk 

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