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Financial Services Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Sharkey (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Monday, 12 November 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Financial Services Bill.

I would like to thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this brief debate, particularly my noble friend Lord Newby for his commitment to the publication of disaggregated, postcode-level data in this important area and also, in a way, for helping us to look forward to a slightly more varied Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill than we might have expected in the new year.

Last week it was the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, who told us what the correct technical response was to this kind of government commitment: she said it was “bingo”. I would like to echo that. I finish by saying that, although I hope we will be able to get a satisfactory voluntary agreement on this, I am enormously encouraged by the Government’s firm commitment to legislate should this not be the case. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
740 c1362 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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