Bank of England and Financial Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I had not realised until now that I am a wild enthusiast for a bespoke policy carve-out...

My Lords, we have come a considerable distance from what was in the original draft of the Bill th...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Higgins and the noble Lord, Lord Davies, for thei...

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley

That this House do agree with the Commons in their A...

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 7—and on thi...

My Lords, we support this amendment, but more precisely, we support this amendment with the commi...

My Lords, as a former chair of the Liaison Committee in the House of Commons, which co-ordinates ...

My Lords, as I understand it, the proposed arrangements effectively give the Treasury Select Comm...

My Lords, perhaps I may pick up on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Flight. The FCA is one ...

My Lords, after those contributions I can keep my own fairly short. However, like the noble Baron...

My Lords, I am delighted to hear the overall approval and support for the principles and thrust b...

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley

My Lords, this amendment gives the Treasury a power to provide financial assistance to bodies for...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chair of the National Trading Standards board and welcome this...

My Lords, this is a very good amendment and we support it. Until now, funding for action against ...

My Lords, while we support the amendment, my colleagues in the other place made a strong argument...

My Lords, I again thank noble Lords for their support in principle for much of this amendment; in...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

My Lords, the amendment addresses the important question of how the banks are treating politicall...

My Lords, as the Minister said, this House has frequently discussed the problems with the banks’ ...

My Lords, I welcome the amendment but the issue of PEPs is by no means solved and there is still ...

My Lords, the kind of language the Government may use in dealing with this in legislation may be ...

My Lords, I, too, have some sympathy with the concern about PEPs. My bank managed to be very surp...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have replied. There seems to be unanimity that this is...

Can my noble friend confirm to the House that the consultation will not be a three-week consultat...

The consultation will be conducted under the Cabinet Office rules for consultations—so it will be...

My noble friend says that he is not in a position to indicate when the consultation shall start—b...

I can reassure my noble friend, because the date that the regulations have to be brought in is Ju...

Before my noble friend comes to his peroration, perhaps I could ask this. All this consultation i...

Even if that took place, we would be a member of the European Union for at least two years under ...

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley

My Lords, Commons Amendment 10 places a duty on the Financial Conduct Authority to cap early exit...

My Lords, I take this opportunity to thank the Minister for meeting my noble friend Lord McKenzie...

My Lords, I echo the objections just raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Drake. It is quite inexpl...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his early warning of this amendment, for facilitating the meet...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. Let me pick up on the final point w...

Before the Minister finishes, if I may, the defence is given that this is not a fairness regime b...

The noble Baroness, as so often, makes a very valid point. This is precisely what the consultatio...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

Moved by

Lord Bridges of Headley