Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Craig Tracey Excerpts
Tuesday 1st March 2016

(8 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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We are working to get those arrangements right. They are clearly complex, because of cross-border companies that will pay a single levy rate, but we are having good discussions with the Scottish Government. I think that, as with the agreement on the fiscal charter, we can work together for the benefit of the United Kingdom.

Craig Tracey Portrait Craig Tracey (North Warwickshire) (Con)
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I welcome the fact that my constituents have been given more control over their finances, thanks to changes implemented by the Government. Can the Minister advise me on what steps have been taken to ensure that the regulation applied to small high street financial advisers and insurance brokers is both fair and proportionate, given the important service that they provide?

Harriett Baldwin Portrait The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Harriett Baldwin)
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I thank my hon. Friend for raising this point. We have launched something called the financial advice market review, which will be reporting around the time of the Budget. We will be looking at how to make financial advice more affordable and more available, and also at how to get the right kind of regulatory balance for smaller firms.