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Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 September 2026

Debate

Financial Services and Markets Bill [HL]

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply to the debate. I recognise the movement that he has indicated, but I did ask him to say something about transparency, which was, I am afraid, absent from what he said just then. He talked about proportionality, but I was talking about the linkage between transparency and proportionality and that, with transparency still languishing at strategy level, I was not sure whether we were going to get adequate transparency over things such as cost-benefit, which are part of proportionality. I know that is a little convoluted and I will not pursue it any further here, but I would be very grateful to have a meeting with the Minister before we get to Third Reading because, if he is going to be addressing points about Clause 17, then we should at least cross-check whether there is anything relevant in that to do. For now, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.

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