Financial Services Bill

My Lords, Amendment 25A stands initially on its face. It proposes that the FCA should have regard...

My Lords, my noble friend raised some very interesting points. Of course the RDR issue has two pa...

My Lords, I was not intending to take part in this debate. At one time, I was chairman of the Chi...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Flight has spoken eloquently on the issue of the retail distributi...

My Lords, first, I am glad to learn that the amendment taken at its face value is not necessary, ...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

25B: Clause 6, page 20, line 41, after “code...

My Lords, there can be little doubt that an enforceable code of conduct is sorely needed in this ...

My Lords, I rise to support both of these amendments in the names of my noble friends. I think th...

My Lords, I have amendments in the next group and so will keep most of my comments on this aspect...

My Lords, it is difficult to disagree with the objective of appropriate codes of conduct in this ...

My Lords, I strongly support my noble friend in her amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Blackwell, se...

My Lords, I always take a lot of notice of my noble friend Lord Blackwell. However, Amendments 25...

I must be a bit thick; I thought that the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards was not d...

I will come on to that if the noble Lord, Lord Peston, will hear me out. Of course it is no good ...

My Lords—

I will give way to the noble Lord, Lord Barnett, in a moment but perhaps I may answer specificall...

My Lords, the noble Lord has not hesitated, quite rightly, to put the LIBOR scandal amendments in...

My Lords, the Government kicked off a number of inquiries and reviews immediately we became aware...

I am still a bit lost. As I understand it, the Minister cannot at this point commit the Governmen...

My Lords, we have published the Bill in draft already, so it is already on the slipway in that se...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken on the amendment. I will give one specific answer t...

Moved by

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

25C: Clause 6, page 21, line 8, at end inser...

My Lords, historically, bank managers were much trusted to act in the best interest of their clie...

Lord Phillips of Sudbury:

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group, Amendment 26D and ...

The noble Lord makes a good point. He should perhaps have talked to some of his friends on the la...

My noble friend Lord Phillips is quite right to draw attention to the importance of integrity. In...

My Lords, I intervene reluctantly, but I see a lack of logic in what was said by the noble Lord, ...

I was not aware that I said that everything in the City was perfect. I said that integrity lies a...

I am a bit confused. If the noble Lord absolutely agrees with me on the primacy of integrity, he ...

My Lords, I am not on the Front Bench, but as I read it, proposed new Section 1B(4) gives equal w...

I hesitate to trouble the House with a further intervention—

My Lords, perhaps I may remind noble Lords that the rules of the House are that on Report, Member...

We can speak for clarification and to ask questions. We cannot make substantive points.

My Lords, I spoke about the role of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards when discus...

I thank noble Lords for their support on the amendment. I actually think that the Minister is wro...