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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate and to the Minister for his response. I welcome that the Government recognise the problem of delay…01 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]01 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have contributed to this debate and to the Minister for his response. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Pitt-Watson, for being generally…01 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have brought our attention to past debates on these knotty issues from a position of great expertise. All the amendments raise…01 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I think that, in my amendment, I was trying to talk about when powers are exercised under the Act. Obviously, I appreciate the work that is being done to get the thicket out of…01 Jul 2026HANSARDPension Access Rules: Impact on Terminally IllMy Lords, The Pensions Review , along with a whole body of work done by organisations such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies, raises serious concerns about pension adequacy and…30 Jun 2026HANSARDCovid FraudMy Lords, I think we need to stand back and take a broad view of the problems. We all know that Covid was a challenge right across government and that fraud was an issue. However,…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, this is an important clause, and I understand why noble Lords wish to probe the Government’s approach to Clause 17. It is always right that we scrutinise carefully any…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Holmes and other noble Lords for bringing forward their amendments in this group. I was glad to hear that the Minister will meet…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]Perhaps I might press the Minister on the subject of smaller businesses and the Bowles amendment to the proportionality proposal, which takes account of differences in the size,…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, we understand the reasoning behind these amendments. Financial inclusion is, of course, an important objective, as the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, explained so clearly.…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, for bringing forward these amendments. They raise two very salient points about the accountability of the financial…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, we are sympathetic to the concerns raised by noble Lords across this group. I was glad to add my name to several amendments tabled by my noble friend Lady Noakes. I…29 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for bringing forward this group of amendments, which raises several important questions around the future shape of payments regulation once…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to all who have taken part in this short debate. We are sympathetic to the broad purpose of requiring regulators to think strategically, but, if the…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to the stand part notice on Clause 14 and Amendment 69A in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Altrincham. I am also grateful to my noble friend Lord…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, that digital assets are a serious issue and that they deserve proper scrutiny. We come at it from a slightly different perspective. I…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]Before the Minister sits down, may I come back to the question of consultation? We are being asked to have a high degree of delegation with this change of governance for the…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]Since it is Committee, I have a couple of points to raise with the Minister before we finish this important section. First, I think the industry needs some idea of the timeframe…24 Jun 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]22 Jun 2026