Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the 10 December 2018 Financial Times article FCA fines against individuals almost treble, whether his Department has made an assessment of the reasons for which fines issued by the Financial Conduct Authority decreased 88 per cent between 2017 and 2018.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act (2000). In view of this independence, HMT does not make an assessment of the fines issued by the FCA. The FCA provides year on year analysis of the fines it levies in its annual enforcement report. The 2017/18 report can be found here:
https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/corporate/annual-report-2017-18-enforcement-performance.pdf