UK. New pensions minister to take on expanded role
Hexham MP Guy Opperman will be the new pensions minister, the Government has announced.
Opperman takes over the brief from Watford MP Richard Harrington, who has been moved to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as part of the Conservative Party’s reshuffle.
However, Opperman’s brief has been expanded to also include financial inclusion. The Government’s website entry still says that exactly what this entails will be confirmed “in due course”.
Widening the pensions minister remit stands in contrast to criticisms made by Ros Altmann, Harrington’s predecessor, that the Government had “downgraded” the pensions minister brief.
Harrington was given the official title of ‘parliamentary under-secretary of state for pensions’, which is seen as lower ranking than minister of state or secretary of state.
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