Does my right hon. Friend agree that consumers and businesses want the existing banking sector to receive the hot blast of competition and that, in order for that competition and choice to exist, we need a regulatory regime that will allow in new entrants, especially those that specialise in community-based banking and in lending to small businesses and social enterprises? Might not one such new entrant emerge from the break-up of the state-controlled RBS?
Banking Reform
Proceeding contribution from
Stephen Williams
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 February 2013.
It occurred during Urgent question on Banking Reform.
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