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Financial Services Bill

Proceeding contribution from Chris Leslie (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 10 December 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Financial Services Bill.

My hon. Friend is correct that this is about learning the lessons of preparedness and of what level of forward thinking we can undertake at this point in time. It is still amazing—I know she agrees—that although the FSA conducted a comprehensive review of its role in the financial crisis and the Treasury and Government did the same, we have to this day still not had a comprehensive review by the Bank of England of its role in the financial crisis. That is amazing. It begrudgingly had three minor reviews dragged out of

it—it was like getting blood out of a stone—considering small particular areas where it had some failings. Those reviews concluded that there were serious issues to be addressed, and one of the individuals conducting one of those three small arrangements talked about the fact that the governance arrangements in the Bank of England were still too centralised. I hope that the Government will think more carefully about crisis management provisions.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
555 c68 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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