Hargreaves takes on Steve Webb as apprentice for the day

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Pensions minister Steve Webb will tomorrow join Hargreaves Lansdown as an apprentice for the day.

Webb (pictured) will join the pensions helpdesk tomorrow in order to promote the availability of apprenticeships and to learn more about the issues that members of the public raise with financial experts.  He will also join Hargreaves on visits to local employers to see presentations to workers about pensions issues. Webb said: "Along with other Liberal Democrat MPs, I am working to promote the take-up of apprenticeships by local firms. I plan to advertise for an apprentice to work in my own office later in the year, and I'm most grateful to Hargreaves Lansdown for giving me the oppor...

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