Financial Services Regulation Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Financial Services Regulation

Jacob Rees-Mogg Excerpts
Wednesday 16th June 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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I agree with every word that my hon. Friend said.

Jacob Rees-Mogg Portrait Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset) (Con)
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May I declare an interest, as I am regulated by the Financial Services Authority? Does the Chancellor agree that boom and bust is part of the human condition, we will never get away from it, and the best that regulation can do is ameliorate extremes, not stop boom and bust altogether?

George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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I am not sure whether the Labour party in opposition will keep its promise to abolish boom and bust, but it proved pretty disastrous in government. All of us welcome the fact that my hon. Friend will no longer be regulated by the FSA, and instead will be regulated by the Whips Office.