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HANSARDTopical QuestionsT7. It is widely acknowledged that public spending cuts impact most on women. The Chancellor has signalled that he will seek such cuts in an effort to close the £40 billion hole…26 Oct 2022HANSARDHome Secretary: Resignation and ReappointmentIt seems to me that the ministerial code has been honoured more in the breach than in the observance in this last period of multiple Governments and the clown show that we have…26 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)I want to register some concern and get the Minister’s reassurances on the record about what are very broad-ranging powers for the Treasury, which are then subject to constraints.…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)Good morning, Dame Maria. It is a great honour to be on a Bill that you are chairing—I think it is our first time together in this iteration. The Opposition do not have a problem…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)I wonder about the sequencing. There is a list in schedule 1 of all the legislation that applies to financial services, lock, stock and barrel. The sifting Committee had oversight…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)It was not the most fascinating thing I have ever done in the House, but it was one of those things that one has to do, or the statute book ends up in a right mess.25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)I apologise for intervening, but Standing Committee is the time when we can ask detailed questions, so I hope the Minister does not mind my coming back in. [ Interruption. ] I…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)As a member of the Treasury Committee, I can say that we are trying to get a handle on the scrutiny that will be applied as regulators come to look at these things. One assumes…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)Clearly, Pepper v. Hart applies when a reassurance is given by a Minister. That is partly why we ask questions in these proceedings. We wish to have on record reassurances about…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)I wonder whether the Minister could be a bit more forthcoming about when the amendment will be available, because that will give us a fuller picture of the Government’s decisions…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)Could the Minister spend a bit of time explaining what “materially similar” means?25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Third sitting)Obviously, this is an extremely complex area of technical regulation. It requires the regulators, alongside the Basel Committee and the international authorities regulating the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)The Minister is quite right that all Governments have to think about how to deal with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, but using that phrase is a bit like using the phrase…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)I do not want to row in behind the hon. Member and support absolutely everything that he says on his amendment, but I know what he is trying to do: to put something in statute…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)Before we were so rudely interrupted, I was saying that, although I do not support the detail of the amendment, it is a hook on which to hang the sheer frustration that many of…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)My questions seek some reassurance from the Minister, since I think these clauses are broadly welcome and, indeed, vital in the context of the Bill. One would not want to have…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)I find myself rising to try to elaborate on the important points that have been made. I do not think that anyone would argue against the need to think very carefully about how to…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)That is true. Blockchain has certainly been around for quite a while. Its use has implications for transparency and for the levels of employment that there might be in the old,…25 Oct 2022HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill (Fourth sitting)Obviously this is an extremely important part of the Bill because it creates a regulatory gateway for financial promotions. We know from what the FCA has reported that there is an…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)And the previous Whips!18 Oct 2022