Parliamentary Commission on Banking
Standards
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking
Standards is appointed by both Houses of Parliament to consider
and report on professional standards and culture of the UK banking
sector, taking account of regulatory and competition investigations
into the LIBOR rate-setting process, lessons to be learned about
corporate governance, transparency and conflicts of interest,
and their implications for regulation and for Government policy
and to make recommendations for legislative and other action.
Current membership
Mr Andrew Tyrie MP (Conservative, Chichester)
(Chairman)
The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Non-Affiliated)
Mark Garnier MP (Conservative, Wyre
Forest)
Baroness Kramer (Liberal Democrat)
Rt Hon Lord Lawson of Blaby (Conservative)
Mr Andrew Love MP (Labour/Co-operative,
Edmonton)
Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP (Labour, Wolverhampton
South East)
Rt Hon Lord McFall of Alcluith (Labour/Co-operative)
John Thurso MP (Liberal Democrat, Caithness,
Sutherland and Easter Ross)
Lord Turnbull KCB CVO (Crossbench)
Powers
The Commission has the power to require
the submission of written evidence and documents, to examine witnesses,
to meet at any time (except when Parliament is prorogued or dissolved),
to adjourn from place to place, to appoint specialist advisers,
and to make Reports to both Houses. The Commission has power in
the appointment of a Chairman.
Publications
The Reports and evidence of the Commission
are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House.
All publications of the Commission (including press notices) are
on the Internet at http://www.parliament.uk/bankingstandards.
Commission staff
The following parliamentary staff are
currently working for the Commission:
Colin Lee (Commons Clerk and Chief of
Staff), Adam Mellows-Facer (Deputy Chief of Staff), Richard McLean
(Lords Clerk), Lydia Menzies (Second Clerk), Lucy Petrie (Second
Clerk), Robert Law (Commission Specialist), Jay Sheth (Commission
Specialist), Gavin Thompson (Commission Specialist), James Abbott
(Media Officer), James Bowman (Senior Committee Assistant), Claire
Cozens (Senior Committee Assistant), Baris Tufekci (Committee
Assistant), Ann Williams (PA to the Chief of Staff) and Danielle
Nash (Committee Support Assistant).
The following staff are currently on
secondment from outside of Parliament to work for the Commission
as Commission Specialists:
Paul Brione, Suvro Dutta, Oonagh Harrison,
Zoe Leung-Hubbard, Julia Rangasamy, John Sutherland, Greg Thwaites
and Elizabeth Wilson.
The following staff were on secondment
from The Treasury Solicitor's Department in the course of the
Commission's work on HBOS:
Oliver Gilman and Mayur Patel.
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed
to the Clerks of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards,
14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB. The telephone number for general
enquiries is 020 7219 8773; the Commission's email address is
bankingstandards@parliament.uk.
Footnotes
In the footnotes of this Report, references
indicated by 'BQ' and followed by a question number refer to oral
evidence taken by sub-committee B: Panel on HBOS, published by
the Commission in the second volume of this Report. References
indicated by 'Q' and followed by a question number refer to oral
evidence taken by the Commission. Transcripts of this oral evidence
and the second volume are available at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/professional-standards-in-the-banking-industry/publications/.
References indicated by 'B Ev w' followed
by a page number refer to written evidence published by the Commission
in the second volume. This second volume and other written evidence
taken by the Commission and its panels are available at the above
address.
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