Employers have opportunity to quiz Alastair Darling

This morning as part of the local business community I had an opportunity to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer two questions in relation to the Governments policy on pensions and care for the elderly, two topics which are a ticking time bomb for the country. Whilst the Chancellor had no solutions other than recognising that there was a need for cross party consenus on these issues, he did comment that individuals had to plan for the fact that about one third of their life span would be spent in childhood and education, another in the work place and finally one third of the life span as retired, and that had to be funded.