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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Leading banks and alternative lenders are committed to the SME finance charter to help small businesses - Speech Link
2: Philip Hollobone (Con - Kettering) Recent inward investment into the Kettering constituency includes the Ball Corporation from the US building - Speech Link
3: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) This week, I spoke to a conference attended by building societies about how we can increase presence - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) Of course, the Government supported the Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Act 2023, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 19 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (Con - Stoke-on-Trent Central) building societies and banks so that they can compete more fairly.The Bill will support building societies - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (Con - Dover) and instead have favoured failing or second-rate challenger banks. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
2nd reading - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) the measures designed to achieve this—particularly publishers, such as the one I work for, which are building - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) examples, but it might also include fast fashion, meat and dairy and the banks that are funding the - Speech Link
3: Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con - Life peer) For example, take the Palace of Westminster—a grade 1 listed building. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) thought they had made is not the deal they got.Any concentration of power is disfiguring of democratic societies - Speech Link
5: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (Con - Life peer) I come to this with experience of running a challenger telco in an ex ante competition regime. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Report stage - Mon 20 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Roger Gale (Con - North Thanet) any order under section 22);(b) any building society within the meaning of section 119 of the Building - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) Member talks about banks, outlaws and dodgy cash, he talking about high street banks and not Arron Banks - Speech Link
3: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) I would argue that it also probably means fast fashion, most meat and dairy, and the banks funding the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Thu 21 Sep 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) reinforced these efforts with a new tranche of support that included thousands of additional rounds for Challenger - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) One is going to have to look at the money in banks—the state assets in the Bank of England, the United - Speech Link
3: Lord Risby (CON - Life peer) , regulatory requirements and building, could take years. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of £15 million to support people—and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (LAB - Life peer) Instead, challenger and specialist banks made up 51% of lending in 2021, compared with 32% in 2020”. - Speech Link
2: None That cannot and does not happen with the big banks. - Speech Link
3: None regional mutual banks. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) regional mutual banks. - Speech Link
5: None regional mutual banks. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) regional mutual banks. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage - Wed 01 Feb 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Tunnicliffe (LAB - Life peer) how it considers the specific needs of credit unions, building societies, mutual banks, co-operative - Speech Link
2: None Societies Act 1986 to give building societies further flexibility to raise funds and modernise corporate - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) We are taking forward work to look at amending the Building Societies Act, the Co-operative and Community - Speech Link
4: None to ensure a proportionate regime and promote competition via this initiative for smaller banks and building - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) Here we can see that the FCA has persuaded some challenger banks to enter the market, although it has - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage - Wed 07 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: None and building societies in applicable local authority areas in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of - Speech Link
2: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) and building societies in applicable local authority areas in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of - Speech Link
3: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) societies or credit unions, while in the latest PRA annual report, building societies are just lumped - Speech Link
4: John Baron (CON - Basildon and Billericay) That is the sort of advice that banks, building societies and many others could give, without getting - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Financial Services and Markets Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Wed 19 Oct 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Q We will now hear oral evidence from Robin Fieth, chief executive of the Building Societies Association - Speech Link
2: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) challenger banks to get through the process and start up, and we have seen so many start up. - Speech Link
3: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) have considered specific business models—including credit unions, building societies and mutual and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine: Defence Relationships - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) fighting machines, with goodness knows what to replace them, and one-third of their Challenger tanks. - Speech Link
2: Lord West of Spithead (LAB - Life peer) failed nation building in south-east Asia. - Speech Link
3: Lord Craig of Radley (CB - Life peer) Can assets impounded from individuals or Russian banks and businesses be switched to benefit the restoration - Speech Link
4: Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park (CON - Life peer) development banks to support Ukraine’s economy. - Speech Link