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GE 2019: Work and Pensions Committee chair Frank Field loses seat


By Jack Gray

Former Work and Pensions Committee chair, Frank Field, has lost his parliamentary seat of Birkenhead after 40 years as the town's MP.

Labour's Mick Whitley comfortably won the seat in last night's General Election, with 24,990 votes compared to Field's 7,285


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Gaining momentum

Sean Farrell explores the growing trend towards consolidation within the pensions sector

A difficult balance

Many schemes with pension deficits continue to pay shareholders dividends that vastly outweigh the amount they pay into their DB schemes to try to bring them out of deficit. Jack Gray investigates whether it is the right thing to do and if there should be stricter regulations to narrow the ratio between dividend payments and deficit contributions

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