大臣は、州の年金に変更を加えることを除外することを拒否します|英国|ニュース

政府は、英国の貯蓄と経済危機を解決するための困難な決定に直面しているため、州の年金は審査される可能性がある、とトルステン・ベルは年金の大臣が言った。エジンバラで開催された年金および生涯貯蓄協会年次投資会議で講演していたベルは、 州の年金 政府の第2部 年金レビュー。

Thestate年金改革がより広範な将来の年金景観の一部であるべきかどうかを尋ねられたとき、ベルは「レビューは可能な限り広くする必要がある」と述べた。

彼は言った：「妥当性を考慮する方法はありません [the amount people are saving towards their pension that doesn’t integrate thinking about both state and private pensions.

Bell said the necessity of the state pension was in no doubt as it was relied on by an increasingly large number of people.

Bell warned that tough decisions may need to be made around pensions, but it was too late to embark on an all-party commission and the current Labour government had to come up with a solution.

“The country’s in a hole, and the public are really fed up, and we’re not going to solve that by people saying to me, ‘Oh, if only we could have some political consensus’.

“It’s not the mid 2000s. The economy has not been growing well for some time, that’s affecting people’s wages, all over the country, and hospitals are not working, and there are potholes on the roads.”

Bell said: “And every Saturday people are saying to me, this needs to be sorted, and if we don’t sort it, their faith in mainstream politics is being undermined.

“Our job is to take some sometimes difficult decisions to make sure we can start doing the basics again, an economy that grows, wages that rise, public services that function.

“I spend my whole life defending some tax decisions. People say to me, ‘Oh, that’s a risk’. You know, it’s an economic risk. But I’ll tell you what the economic risk is, us not doing these things.

“Otherwise you will all be saying to me in 10 years time, how come people are voting for mad people? And the answer will be, because we didn’t deliver the change that was needed.”