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Finance (No. 2) Bill

Proceeding contribution from Gareth Thomas (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 December 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way to me a second time. May I just remind him of the Competition and Markets Authority investigation into banking, which noted the lack of competition in banking and highlighted the lack of innovation and the fact that the big five banks control 85% of the retail banking market and make excess profits? Might keeping the bank levy at its current rate not be compensation to the consumer and the taxpayer for those excess profits?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
633 c73 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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