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General Committees
Draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024 Draft Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Financial Penalty) Regulations 2024 - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) For example, if the whole Blackmore Bond group had had to be audited to professional standards, the problems - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) We think that provides Companies House and the Insolvency Service, which is the enforcement body for - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) conduct or offences are sufficiently serious, they can pass that on to the relevant prosecution body —the Insolvency - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
2nd reading - Thu 13 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) I do not apologise for bringing up Blackmore Bond again; I will keep bringing it up until Phillip Nunn - Speech Link
2: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Will the Minister commit to putting such companies through an insolvency process to ensure that returns - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Compensation (London Capital & Finance plc and Fraud Compensation Fund) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 19 Oct 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) What about investors in Blackmore Bond, in Basset & Gold, in secured energy bonds and, indeed, in - Speech Link
2: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) scandals, as the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, said, at Blackmore Bond, Basset & Gold, the Mexican - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) In comparison, other minibond firms such as Blackmore Bond and Basset & Gold were not authorised - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill
Report stage - Thu 09 Sep 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None report under subsection (1) must include the number of former directors of dissolved companies the Insolvency - Speech Link
2: Luke Hall (CON - Thornbury and Yate) Service has been publishing experimental monthly releases of data concerning insolvency numbers. - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) defraud others.At earlier stages, I have repeatedly mentioned the conduct of a group of companies called Blackmore - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage: 3rd sitting - Thu 08 Jul 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) It could not have stopped them from setting up the much more lucrative Blackmore Bond in 2016. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Jeff Smith (LAB - Manchester, Withington) We are very interested in cases such as Blackmore Bond, London Capital & Finance, Connaught, Lendy - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) The reason why we ran an event called “The Great Insolvency Scam” is that we see insolvency as a very - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) organisation, I think we should be relentless when it comes to chasing down people who operate scams such as Blackmore - Speech Link
4: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Service, Insolvency Service. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Conduct Authority and Blackmore Bond plc - Wed 30 Jun 2021
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) concerns cover not just the Financial Conduct Authority but other regulators, such as Companies House, the Insolvency - Speech Link
2: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Patrick McCreesh advised him that Blackmore Estates was now part of Blackmore Bond plc, and set out to - Speech Link
3: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) I extend my sympathies to the Blackmore Bond investors. The hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill
2nd reading2nd Reading - Mon 28 Jun 2021
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Between 2016 and 2019, one of these companies, Blackmore Bond plc, raised £46 million by selling high-risk - Speech Link
2: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Bond but apparently did nothing about it until it was far too late. - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Bond was using; perhaps if the FCA had made the link to the dodgy practices in relation to Capita Oak - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services Bill
Report stage - Wed 14 Apr 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) We went through example after example of that in Grand Committee, Blackmore and London Capital being - Speech Link
2: None beholden to the Court of Protection in respect of an annual supervision fee, possibly an annual deputy bond - Speech Link
3: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) friend Lord True explained that resources had to be moved to bring about the passage of the Corporate Insolvency - Speech Link
4: Lord True (CON - Life peer) the Government as we go forward.My noble friend Lord Trenchard asked about the use of the Corporate Insolvency - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services Bill
Report stage - Wed 24 Mar 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) but was slow to act at London Capital & Finance, and the same pattern has now been repeated at Blackmore - Speech Link
2: Baroness Noakes (CON - Life peer) I said in Committee, most borrowing by oil and gas companies will be generic—for example, by way of bond - Speech Link
3: Lord True (CON - Life peer) As well as preparing the regulations, the Treasury will also need to work with the Insolvency Service - Speech Link
4: None from debtors’ monthly repayments, of which 8% will be provided to the debt advice provider, 1% to the Insolvency - Speech Link