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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I just add that the point of the principles is that they are, in effect, Parliament’s recommendations set in law. I am struggling to see how that fits into the question of who can…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]At this hour, the only thing to do is to withdraw the amendment. I thank the Committee.24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will of course withdraw this amendment, but I wanted to get this issue on the agenda, and we need to continue to do so. I say to the Government: do not be complacent…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, this is very much a probing amendment, but I thought that we ought to raise this issue; the Bill seemed an appropriate place to do so. Frankly, it is an issue on which…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will make a few comments on amendments in this group and speak particularly to my Amendments 54 and 57. I say very gently that I agree with the other amendments in…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much suspect that the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, and I would find significant differences in our ideal list of the regulatory principles in Section 3B(1) of…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I ask for some clarification on this complex area. Under Clause 16, new Section 1JZA(7) states: “A strategy may be revised by publishing a revised version of the…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, here I am again with another issue that I want to raise. It does not necessarily look like it, but this is another constitutional amendment. Digital money and stablecoin…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will make some comments on the amendments that have been discussed and then speak to the amendments in my name. I have some sympathy with the issues raised by the…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]24 Jun 2026HANSARDScottish Government: Social Security BenefitsMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bruce, tabled this Question in part because he is appalled that so many people he speaks to in Scotland think that the whole of their benefit comes…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I am not sure that is what the legislation says; I think it says “rules”.22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester for signing Amendment 28 and for speaking so eloquently in this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Massey, and the noble…22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 28 and 29 are in my name. Amendment 30 is in the name of my noble friend Lady Bowles and I am very supportive of it, but I am going to focus my remarks on…22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, there seem to have been two themes in today’s discussion; I will address both because I agree with them both. The first is on whether we value banking hubs. There have…22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords—22 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, both gave far better speeches then I could, and covered the whole area substantially. I am…22 Jun 2026