Written Question·Treasury·UIN 113526

Digital Markets Champion: Public Appointments

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 25 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Mark Garnier

ConservativeWyre Forest

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the importance of appointing a Digital Markets Champion with experience and understanding of digital assets and distributed ledger technologies, to help position the UK as a global hu

Answer

Lucy Rigby
Last July the government published the Wholesale Financial Markets Digital Strategy. The strategy announced that the government will appoint an industry expert as Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, who will provide leadership from, and for, the sector on...

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