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 Bishop of Durham (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), 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),
Daniel Moeller (Committee Assistant), Ann Williams (PA to the
Chief of Staff) and Danielle Nash (Committee Support Assistant).
The following staff are currently on secondment to
the Commission from outside Parliament:
Philip Airey , Paul Brione, Suvro Dutta, Oonagh Harrison,
Sadiq Javeri, Zoe Leung-Hubbard, Mayur Patel, Julia Rangasamy,
John Sutherland, Greg Thwaites and Elizabeth Wilson.
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 'Q' and followed by a question number refer to oral evidence
taken by the Commission. Transcripts of this oral evidence and
oral evidence taken by the Commission's panels are available at
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/professional-standards-in-the-banking-industry/publications/.
References indicated by '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 is available at the above
address.
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