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HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q I appreciate that you did not have notice of the question, but would it be fair to say that a number of investors come to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and discover…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Yes. I just want to ask Mr Bishop if he has anything to add. Mark Bishop: Yes. I strongly endorse what my colleague Andy Agathangelou said and I would like to add a little more…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q May I start with the witnesses from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme? I am happy to let you decide among yourselves who is best placed to answer. One of the major…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. A lot of the issues he raises are covered in Dame Elizabeth Gloster’s report and recommendations. She even pointed out today that possibly…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)Has the Economic Secretary or any of his advisers actually read the promotional material that companies such as Blackmore Bond were giving out, to assess the number of times that…15 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (First sitting)Q Are you able to give an indication of how many claims or inquiries the scheme receives from people who turn out not to be entitled to compensation because their investments were…15 Jun 2021HANSARDCompensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill (Second sitting)As an indication of the Government having come to a decision and then looking for an explanation for it, I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman picked up in the Minister’s…15 Jun 2021HANSARDEngagementsIn just over three years, the directors of Blackmore Bond plc took £46 million of other people’s money and made it disappear. Around 2,800 small investors, whose money the…09 Jun 2021HANSARD Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) BillI am pleased to be able to speak in this short debate and to confirm that the SNP will not oppose Second Reading, but I am angry and frustrated that the debate needs to take place…08 Jun 2021HANSARDBusiness Rates Reduction ServicesI am pleased to begin the summing up in this debate. Like others who have spoken, it is clear that if there had not been other major attractions on elsewhere in the House, there…26 May 2021HANSARDDaniel Morgan: Independent Panel ReportI cannot help thinking that if things had been the other way around, and Sun journalists had lied to procure an interview with the late Princess of Wales, and the BBC were alleged…24 May 2021HANSARDA Plan for the NHS and Social CareMay I associate myself with the remarks of Members who have once again reminded us just how much we all owe, even in normal times, the health and social care workers across these…19 May 2021HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateI am very grateful in advance to the NHS Fife staff who will give me my second dose of the vaccine exactly 10 weeks to the day after my first one. The Secretary of State indicated…17 May 2021HANSARDCovid-19 UpdateEarlier, the Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, the right hon. Member for South West Surrey (Jeremy Hunt), raised the question of the recruitment and retention of…12 May 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Fourth sitting)I do not have any issue with the changes proposed in clause 123 but, like the hon. Member for Ealing North, I think it is important to make clear that, in passing the legislation,…27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Third sitting)The reason why a regular report to Parliament is needed on these taxes is that despite the optimistic assessment that the Exchequer Secretary set out, there are far too many…27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Third sitting)How much of the reduction in waste going to landfill is due to a reduction in waste being produced, and how much of it is waste ending up in farmers’ fields and play parks and…27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Third sitting)The disadvantage of not speaking on every clause just for the sake of it is that sometimes people forget that someone is there. I hear what the Minister says about new clause 4,…27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Third sitting)rose —27 Apr 2021HANSARDFinance (No.2) Bill (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Angela. I could repeat much of what I have to say about new clause 3 when we debate new clause 5, but in the interests of…27 Apr 2021