Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill

My Lords, I support the noble Lord’s amendment enthusiastically because the auditors were the wea...

My Lords, I strongly support these two amendments and the points made by the noble Lords, Lord La...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Lawson. I declare what I...

My Lords, I will say a few words, as a director of a bank and a member of an audit committee, to ...

My Lords, I support the two amendments in this group. They address real flaws in the current arra...

My Lords, I am going to build on what has been said by the noble Lords, Lord McFall, Lord Barnett...

My Lords, I do not think anyone can disagree with the arguments put forward by my noble friend Lo...

My Lords, it is clear from remarks made around the House that noble Lords support the intention o...

My Lords, these two amendments concern the role of auditing in banks. Many excellent points have ...

My Lords, I have listened to what the Minister has said. On the second of his two points, I think...

Moved by

Lord Lawson of Blaby

93: Before Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, the amendment concerns an issue of critical importance. As was said in the previous deb...

My Lords, this amendment, which I hope will become a new clause in the Bill, is probably the most...

My Lords, I support the amendment and the account given by the noble Lord, Lord Lawson. I shall a...

My Lords, from the discussion, I am once again not clear on whether this needs to be built into t...

The issue here is not whether you should have a leverage ratio; it is not whether it should be st...

I thank my noble friend for that clarification, but I was responding to the points that were made...

I, too, strongly support this amendment. This is a serious matter. It is not a backstop, or at le...

My Lords, I agree with much of what my noble friend Lord Blackwell said—in fact, I probably agree...

I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lawson, which stands in my name as well. As the ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Eatwell, pointed out, this is crucially important territory. Ho...

My Lords, I agree with much of what my noble friend Lord Flight has said. I also agree with a gre...

My Lords, Mr Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, des...

My Lords, I welcome the engagement of noble Lords on this critical issue of the leverage ratio an...

I am intrigued by that argument. The noble Lord started off with a powerful argument for the nece...

There was nothing contradictory in what I said, but I will clarify it. For the longer term, we ab...

My Lords, will the Minister answer the question I asked about the statement that the Bank of Engl...

I apologise to the noble Lord. I was so excited about the first question that I forgot about the ...

My Lords, in some ways this has been a rather puzzling debate. I warmly endorse what the noble Lo...

Moved by

Lord Lawson of Blaby

94: Before Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Turnbull and Lord McFal...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, in this amendment. It seems a modest amendment, ...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. I moved Amendment 91B at the close of our second day in ...

My Lords, I also support my noble friend’s amendment, but with some qualifications and a request ...

I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, that it is certainly not intended, while this activity m...

My Lords, the ICB considered in detail the case for a ban on proprietary trading in the UK, but d...

My Lords, the Minister says that we do not want to have the regulator wasting resources. However,...

I was trying to be clear but I shall reinforce my comments. I think this issue was covered on the...

My Lords, I think that there has been a slight misunderstanding. My noble friend the Minister sai...

Moved by

Lord Turnbull

95: Before Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—

“...

This amendment stands in my name and in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Lawson and Lord McFall...

My Lords, we have already, on some previous amendments, begun to discuss the issue of the culture...

My Lords, I rise to speak on behalf of the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury. He...

My Lords, I commend the mover of the amendment, the noble Lord, Lord Turnbull. If, as I assume, t...

My Lords, I support the amendment. The most important and admired banker of the 20th century—the ...

My Lords, I am not sure that I agree entirely with what my noble friend Lord Phillips of Sudbury ...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Turnbull. I know that my...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to my noble friend Lord Lawson and I apologise if, as he said...

My Lords, we have had a fascinating debate within a debate between the noble Viscount and my nobl...

My Lords, we have had an extremely wide-ranging debate on many aspects of bankers’ remuneration. ...

My Lords, I agree that this has been an interesting debate. I start by thanking the right reveren...

Moved by

Lord Turnbull

97: Before Clause 16, insert the following new Clause—

“...

Amendment 97 would create a regime of special measures. In the report of the Parliamentary Commis...

My Lords, we agree with the spirit behind the special measures proposal, as the noble Lord expect...

I am grateful to the Minister. I think I received a link to the document but never got round to r...

My Lords, the usual channels have set us a bit of a challenge: noble Lords on the Back Benches ha...