The Future Framework for Regulation of Financial Services Contents

Contents

Summary

Introduction and Scope

1 The Treasury’s proposed future framework

Existing UK financial services legal framework

Context of EU legal framework

The proposal

Activity-based regulation

Moving on-shored rules into statute

UK-derived rules

Ministerial oversight of regulator proposals

Is there a need for change?

Regulator views

Activity-Based Approach views

Is there a need for change?

Regulator views

Industry views

The European Union approach to regulation

The Financial Ombudsman Service

2 Future scrutiny of financial services

Proposed legal structure of framework

Scrutiny response to new framework

Previous EU Parliamentary scrutiny of financial services

Ex-ante scrutiny

Options for how Parliament should scrutinise financial services

A new financial services committee

A Joint Committee

Independent organisation to carry out scrutiny and report back to Parliament

The status quo

Conclusion

A Treasury sub-committee

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliamentary session




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