Business Select Committee member Paul Blomfield MP has slammed Conservative members of the Committee for opposing the appointment of Bedfordshire Vice-Chancellor Professor Les Ebdon as Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA). Professor Ebdon was selected for the job of Director of OFFA by Business Secretary Vince Cable and Universities Minister David Willetts, from a shortlist prepared by a ...

Vince Cable is expected to appoint don who threatens to penalise universities that recruit too few working-class students.

The radical candidate favoured as universities watchdog by the Government will today be rejected by a committee of MPs.

Here are some posts made on Spectator.co.uk during the past week: Fraser Nelson tells Tristram Hunt that capitalism is just what Britain does, and says Osborne owes Darling an apology. James Forsyth thinks the Tories will be delighted to see the battle over the benefit cap prolonged, and says Alex Salmond's strategy is both subtle and dangerous. Peter Hoskin watches Vince Cable teach Chuka Um...

Business Secretary says sports stars' rewards "reflect merits" as he sets out plans to of reform pay of top executives in the City.

As we reported here on LibDemVoice yesterday, Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable yesterday announced to the House of Commons a number of measures to curb excessive boardroom pay: (Available on the BBC website here.) Here’s how the BBC summarised the proposed measures: making firms’ remuneration reports easier to understand, and requiring them to explain

Chuka Umunna MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, commenting on Vince Cable’s announcement on executive pay, said:

Business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans designed to curb executive pay in a speech to MPs.

Shareholders should be able to hold binding votes over executive pay, Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced.

If you were in a particularly soggy mood, you'd almost feel sorry for Chuka Umunna. He'd managed to force Vince Cable into the House this afternoon, to announce the coalition's plans for curbing executive pay a day earlier than planned, and he must have been feeling pretty swell about it. This was, on paper, the initiative seized; a chance to prise open the Business Secretary's...