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)
Most Rev and Rt Hon the 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's powers include the powers 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.
A full list of the Commission's powers is available
in the House of Commons Votes and Proceedings of 16 July 2012
on page 266, and the House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of
17 July 2012, Item 10.
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 worked for the
Commission:
Colin Lee (Commons Clerk and Chief of Staff), Adam
Mellows-Facer (Deputy Chief of Staff), Lydia Menzies (Second Clerk),
Sian Woodward (Clerk), Richard McLean (Lords Clerk), Lucy Petrie
(Second Clerk), Jay Sheth (Commission Specialist), Gavin Thompson
(Commission Specialist), James Abbott (Media Officer), James Bowman
(Senior Committee Assistant), Tony Catinella (Senior Committee
Assistant), Claire Cozens (Senior Committee Assistant), Emma McIntosh
(Senior Committee Assistant), Rebecca Burton (Committee Assistant),
Katherine McCarthy (Committee Assistant), Daniel Moeller (Committee
Assistant), Baris Tufekci (Committee Assistant), Ann Williams
(PA to the Chief of Staff) and Danielle Nash (Committee Support
Assistant).
The following staff were seconded from outside of
Parliament to work for the Commission as Commission Specialists:
Philip Airey, Amlie Baudot, Paul Brione, Suvro Dutta,
Oliver Gilman, Oonagh Harrison, Sadiq Javeri, Robert Law, 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 c/o the Treasury
Select Committee, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number
for general enquiries is 020 7219 8773; the Commission's email
address is bankingstandards@parliament.uk.
Volumes of this Report
This Report is the Fifth Report of the Commission
(and the First Report of Parliamentary Session 2013-14). It has
nine volumes:
Volume I: Summary, and Conclusions and recommendations)
Volume II: Chapters 1 to 11 and annexes, together
with formal minutes
Volume III: Oral evidence given to the Commission
Volume IV: Written evidence given to the Commission
Volume V: Written evidence given to the Commission
Volume VI: Written evidence given to the Commission
Volume VII: Oral and written evidence given to Sub-Committees
A and B
Volume VIII: Oral and written evidence given to Sub-Committees
C, D, E, F and G
Volume IX: Oral and written evidence given to Sub-Committees
H, I, J and K
Lists of witnesses who gave evidence and lists of
people or organisations who submitted written evidence are given
in the relevant volumes of the Report.
*House of Commons Printing Numbers
This Report is printed under House of Commons Printing
number HC 175. It also incorporates papers ordered for printing
in Session 2012-13 under the following House of Commons printing
numbers:
HC 606-i to -xl
HC 619-i to -ii
HC 705-i to -viii
HC 783-i
HC 706-i to -v
HC 821-i to -iii
HC 710-i to -ii
HC 784-i
HC 881-i to -v
HC 804-i to -ii
HC 860-i to -iv
HC 945-i
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