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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow the powerful speeches of my hon. Friends the Members for Hampstead and Kilburn and for Mitcham and Morden on this important issue. It is not an issue…03 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Ninth sitting)It makes people deeply concerned and it makes them do things that they obviously live to regret in the fullness of time. Increasingly, there are also phone calls from fraudsters…03 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to talk about this extremely important issue. The Treasury Committee produced a long and detailed report on this issue, with a series of recommendations. I hope…03 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Ninth sitting)After what I thought was quite a consensual debate, it is slightly unworthy of the Minister to resort to those comments in the week when there has been an inspectorate report…03 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Ninth sitting)We will have to come in a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Bill to outlawing the appalling music that one has to listen to when trying to access any kind of service, private or…03 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister is reasonably new to his post, but will he look at the Treasury Committee’s report on fraud, which contains a great deal of very practical things the Government could…01 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Seventh sitting)For at least another week!01 Nov 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend’s amendments are an extremely important part of the debate, and I hope that the Government accept them. I should point out that when I sat on the Treasury Committee…01 Nov 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresThe Home Secretary has come to the House today and announced to us that the immigration system is broken. Can she tell us who has been in power for the last 12 years?31 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way. Flattery will, of course, get him everywhere. Given the nature of that complex negotiation, might it be possible for him to undertake to give…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Sixth sitting)I support the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Kilburn. Given the transfer of powers from Brussels to the UK and the fact that a lot of the current…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Sixth sitting)As a member of the Treasury Select Committee and—for an all too brief time—acting Chair, I am also very interested to hear what the Minister has to say about this.27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Sixth sitting)It is odd hearing the Minister’s response before we have spoken to the amendments. I just want to make a few comments about cost-benefit analysis, which is not an easy science. I…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)I have a few questions. The measure is sensible, but at the same time, it can be read as being quite sinister. Perhaps it depends on how the power will be used. The past is not…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)Again, there is largely agreement about the aims of clauses 25 and 26. We are on the cusp of a complete transformation in the way our economies have to work. Sometimes, I think we…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)I approve completely of having a competitiveness and effective competition analysis duty being attached to the regulators, and for them to report on it annually, which would allow…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to focus on parliamentary scrutiny of these changes. They are quite technical, but they could be very important, including for consumers. If we do not get them right, they…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the Minister give us a little more flavour on how he sees the evolution of this area? Does the clause give him enough powers to go with that evolution, or will we need to…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle, whose comments I wholeheartedly support. I suspect there will be widespread support…27 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Sixth sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend. I will wrap up. Given that this is a systemic issue, a “have regard” is the best way of dealing with it. I hope that the Minister will think carefully…27 Oct 2022