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Financial Services Bill

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

My hon. Friend mentioned ethics a moment ago. Although we need a financial services system that is internally ethical and that has the right culture, there is a broader problem. The LIBOR scandal bit in the way it did not because it was a usual Whitehall story, but because the Government rely on LIBOR, among other indices, to know what is going on in financial

services. This might not be the part of the Bill that has been most hotly debated this evening, but we are all reliant on these indices. Is that why my hon. Friend is suggesting that we should cast the net a little wider and try to get ahead of the problem rather than constantly chase ourselves?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
555 c109 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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