Bank of England and Financial Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, for filling my morning because it took me a littl...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, for provoking this debate. Unlike the noble Lord,...

I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, for his support, and for reminding us that ...

My Lords, Clause 12 abolishes the existing PRA. It defines the Bank as the new PRA, exercising it...

My Lords, I refer noble Lords to my interests as declared in the register of interests. It seems ...

My Lords, in response to the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, of course the FSA failed in its task as...

The noble Baroness is failing to understand that there was a strict separation between the role o...

My Lords, I find it extraordinary that there is an argument that the Bank of England knew what wa...

My Lords, again, I support the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, on his general thrust in this debate. I ...

My Lords, once again I thank the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey, for provoking a very interesting debat...

Moved by

Baroness Kramer

20: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, I realise that some of your Lordships will be surprised that we have introduced an amen...

My Lords, the Green Investment Bank has been one of the great successes of the coalition Governme...

My Lords, the idea behind the amendment is estimable but purely to do with the environment. The B...

My Lords, the Minister is faced with a rather challenging task here. First, he operates against a...

As we are in Committee, I will briefly come back to the noble Lord opposite about whether the Ban...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, and the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, for their e...

My Lords, I would be prepared to exchange sides, if the Minister can arrange that.

The noble Lord can come and join us. I fully understand the intentions behind the amendment. Inde...

I am that sure my question is as much of a concern to the Minister as it is to me. The purchasers...

The noble Lord makes an extremely good point, and one that the CEO, Shaun Kingsbury, was asked di...

My Lords, I was actually quite heartened by the Minister’s reply, although I suspect not in the w...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

21: Clause 18, page 15, line 19, at end insert—

“(2) The ...

My Lords, last night at 6.39 pm, the detailed impact assessment for the senior managers and certi...

My Lords, I shall speak against Amendment 21. I confess that my expertise does not rival that of ...

My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my declaration of interests. Before coming to the reaso...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Sharkey. I bring to the attention of th...

My Lords, I do not wish to interrupt the noble Lord in full flight but I should like to put on th...

The commission valued enormously the contribution of the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of ...

My Lords, I oppose this amendment. I have listened to the noble Lord, Lord McFall, and I fully ag...

My Lords, I cannot in any way better the speeches of my noble friend Lord Sharkey and the noble L...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register but particularly as a practising soli...

I welcome the noble Lord’s comments, in particular that senior managers have to perform way beyon...

There is a duty of care. It depends on how much you enact to support the duty of care. As far as ...

The noble Lord has mentioned Socrates. I well remember that Socrates consulted the wise men and c...

I hope that the noble Lord will not mind if I try to avoid following him down that route. I hope ...

My Lords, I do not mean to be in any way offensive to the noble Lord, but we cannot afford to be ...

I am not sure that I am supposed to try to answer the noble Baroness. Perhaps I may just say that...

My Lords, I had not intended to intervene on this amendment, and before I speak, perhaps I had be...

I believe that the noble Lord, Lord Carrington, is referring to the FCA, but regardless of that, ...

I have not read those transcripts, but I have some experience of both the PRA and the FCA, and I ...

I am sorry to keep bobbing up and down, but the point that was made was that those in charge are ...

I will come on to that in a moment; that is the second point I wish to make. The first point is t...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate and the Minister has a great deal to which he needs t...

My Lords, it has been a very good debate and I thank all noble Lords who have spoken eloquently, ...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. It has been a very good one. It is clear ...