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HANSARDDRAFT EUROPEAN UNION (FUTURE RELATIONSHIP) ACT 2020 (REFERENCES TO THE TRADE AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT) REGULATIONS 2021On the Minister’s point about the need for coherence and clarity, can she explain to the Committee whether the statutory instrument will in any way reduce the extra red tape that…19 Jul 2021HANSARDUK Exports to the EUThree weeks ago, Lord Frost rejected the EU’s offer of a veterinary agreement, saying: “We are very ambitious about CPTPP membership… That is the problem.” Since we cannot ask…15 Jul 2021HANSARDPregnancy and Maternity DiscriminationAs a devastating Equality and Human Rights Commission report highlighted some five years ago, and certainly given the experience of too many of my constituents, discrimination…07 Jul 2021HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I have received a number of representations from those seeking to find work on sites such as LinkedIn about not being able to see even a minimum…07 Jul 2021HANSARDPregnancy and Maternity DiscriminationWhat further steps she plans to take to tackle maternity discrimination.07 Jul 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)First, during the time that LCF was in operation. Sheree Howard: I am not aware of any, but I would need to go and check that.15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)That is fine.15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Thanks very much. I want to come back to the extent to which consumer voices get heard. Dame Elizabeth, can you or members of your team set out for the Committee whether there…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Moving forward, do you think that if a substantial number of consumers got in touch to raise concerns about the way a particular financial services business was operating, it…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Okay. I want to ask the Transparency Task Force witnesses: one of the issues before the Committee, as you rightly identify, is whether anything like the LCF scandal could ever…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Presumably, though, Dame Elizabeth, given how much time you put into the report, just professional curiosity might mean that you would want to know whether there has been the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)I rise to support amendment 2, in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East. I share some of the frustration that the hon. Member for Glenrothes…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)I am grateful for your patience, Ms Ghani, and I will not test it much more. The FCA looked at that two years ago and approved it. Crucially, at the time, the chair and the…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)On a point of order, Ms Ghani. You were very good at the end of the evidence session with the FCA to point out that the director, who was present, agreed to provide two pieces of…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)I do not intend to detain the Committee long, because my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East made an excellent speech on this issue; I merely want to…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)My right hon. Friend is rightly dwelling on the issue of the perimeter. May I give him another scenario that suggests that there might still be reasons to be concerned about…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)I am particularly drawn to proposed subsection 5(b) of amendment 7. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman shares my view that one measure the Government need to require of the FCA…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)My right hon. Friend is understandably concerned to protect the taxpayer’s interest. Is there not also another dimension as to why the report he seeks is worthwhile? If there is…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)My right hon. Friend rightly sets out the scale of regulatory failure. Does he think that one of the other potentially unique circumstances of this case is the apparent…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Ms Ghani. I would like to take you back to the FCA’s handling of the consumers who phoned up the FCA about London Capital & Finance. Can you tell me whether there was…15 Jun 2021