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HANSARDBank Closures: Stoke-on-Trent NorthI will give that due consideration. I do not want to make a commitment from the Dispatch Box today, in part because we operate a federated tapestry in financial services…14 Jun 2023HANSARDBank Closures: Stoke-on-Trent NorthMy right hon. Friend, who exercised his great convening power and delivered great service to the nation, makes a very good point. This agenda is never far from my mind. Only last…14 Jun 2023HANSARDBank Closures: Stoke-on-Trent NorthIt is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Ms Nokes. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) on securing this debate on a very grave…14 Jun 2023HANSARD Cryptocurrency RegulationFraud sits separately as part of criminal law. Fraud is fraud, which is a long-standing offence. I am sure the hon. Member has studied in detail the Government’s most recent fraud…13 Jun 2023HANSARD Cryptocurrency RegulationI pay tribute to my right hon. Friend for the points that he made about how important it is that we lean into this space. He used the excellent and apposite example of fintech—a…13 Jun 2023HANSARD Cryptocurrency RegulationIt is a pleasure for me to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris; congratulations on your first time chairing our proceedings in Westminster Hall. I congratulate the hon.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketLet me be clear: the Government understand—I understand—the anxiety of those who have a mortgage, those who have invested in their home and those who wish to do so. That is why we…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI do not agree with the hon. Lady, however fine her rhetoric may be. The reality is that, if we want the nation’s householders to pay less for their mortgages, we need responsible…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketThere are no plans to change that. Those are matters for fiscal events and for the Chancellor.13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI can absolutely reassure the hon. Gentleman that the Government are focused on his constituents, even if his colleagues find it useful to ask the same question again and again.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketThis Government are focused—and this is what our constituents want to hear—on halving inflation, growing the economy and reducing the debt burden. From today forwards, that is the…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketOnce again, we have a contribution from the hon. Lady that completely ignores the fact of the global pandemic, the £400 billion of support we have provided and, although I believe…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketIf York is a low-wage economy, the hon. Lady’s constituents will be benefiting enormously from the unprecedented 9.7% increase in the national living wage. The measures we are…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketMy Treasury colleagues and I liaise closely with the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority, whose job it is to assure us of the soundness and resilience of…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI can give a number of assurances to the hon. Lady’s constituents. I imagine that Battersea is a very cosmopolitan place, so as people travel around the world they will understand…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI should be grateful if the hon. Gentleman would write to me with those statistics. The statistics I quoted earlier are that the level of mortgage arrears reported by the…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI do not have any figures for rental, but the rental market is something we look at closely and we will keep an eye on what happens to those buy-to-let renters. My right hon.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketThe hon. Lady raises the plight of those who have been unable to access even the mortgages at elevated levels that we have been talking about here. I understand the problem; it is…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketI thank the hon. Member for his question. It must have been quite hard to get through all those points without once mentioning the fact that this has an international dimension.…13 Jun 2023HANSARDMortgage MarketIn fairness, it is absolutely the case that these are largely international factors. The job of the Government is to control the variables within their control. The primary thing…13 Jun 2023