Pensions minister replies to your comments

The sheer ferocity of some of Times Online's readers' comments last week over the Government's action - or should that be inaction? - to the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report on the failure of contributory pensions schemes was astonishing.

It certainly seemed from the comments that some of our contributors deserved a response, so we approached Stephen Timms MP, the pensions minister.

You may not like the response...

To summarise, Mr Timms said that this must never happen again (at a guess, it may be that no one intended for this to happen at all in the first place), but that the Government was not responsible and nor would the 85,000 people affected be receiving any sort of Government compensation any time soon (no surprise or solace there then).

To read the Department for Work and Pensions' ministerial reply to Times Online's readers' comments in this blog, click here.

And to re-visit the original reader comments, click here.

Of course, feel free to respond to the Minister's remarks below.