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HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to noble Peers for raising the important issues of financial education and the right of action for SMEs. On financial education, Amendment 167 would place…08 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, for raising this important issue. Building societies are a key part of the UK’s financial services sector. The…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, the FCA currently regulates around 42,000 businesses of different shapes and sizes in the UK, across a wide range of different activities. It is incredibly important,…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I will write to the noble Lord.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I will come back on that after getting clarification on when those will come into effect.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I beg to move.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their warm regards. The fact that this is the most attractive way to spend my birthday probably tells them something about how my life has…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, for notifying us during the debate last Wednesday that this amendment would be tabled. I reiterate that the Government share the…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for tabling this amendment. The Government agree that the regime should operate more proportionately where that…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I am actually speaking to the FCA next week, so I will get some clarity on that and feed back to the Committee.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for raising the importance of ensuring that measures to make the appointed representatives regime safer do not undermine the benefits…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Bowles, and the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, for tabling these amendments on the regulation of claims management services and…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]Again, I will write to the noble Baroness to clarify that.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, the Government recognise that the pace and significance of the current wave of technological change is already having an effect on the whole of society. For the purposes…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]I beg to move.06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 142B would require the FCA to ensure that financial institutions that are registered or regulated by the FCA facilitate the payment of inheritance tax by…06 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, for Amendments 126 and 127, and for raising the important issues of innovation, inclusion and the future shape…01 Jul 2026HANSARDFinancial Services and Markets Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses and the noble Lord for the proposed amendments. These are both important topics. I continue to listen and will definitely try to continue to…01 Jul 2026