Written Question·Treasury·UIN 57507

Financial Institutions: Government Shareholding

Tabled: 4 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to review its approach to state ownership of financial institutions.

Answer

Emma Reynolds
On 30 May 2025, the government sold its remaining shares in NatWest Group (formerly Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS), bringing to an end the public ownership of banks resulting from the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. It is not government policy to pursue ...
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