My Lords, I ask the noble Lord to look at the other side of the balance sheet. I could not find the extract, but it is from a key government website and says that most organisations within the public sector are obliged to bank with either RBS or Citibank. This means that new banks cannot solicit their business. I am not clear how that came about or whether it is even in accordance with EU requirements, but a large part of the economy in the public sector is simply being dictated to on who it can bank with.
Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Flight
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 15 October 2013.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill.
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