Speeches by Baldwin.

“I want to dig a bit deeper into this car finance issue, because car finance is obviously such a significant part of the economy. It is so significant for consumers. Just help me out here in terms of your point of view. It was helpful to hear that there was quite a lot of caseload in this area before the FCA decided to …”

“With a severance payment, clearly.”

“What I am hearing is that there is a severance payment, you are just not prepared to tell Parliament today what it is. I am taking away from this discussion that there is a severance payment.”

“Would the Committee be right in surmising that one of the areas of tension around the chief executive’s role was perhaps to do with these plans?”

“You have not been asked to come up with plans for growth or removing barriers to growth for the Chancellor?”

“That is fine. I am just looking for a yes or no. You are not a regulator and you were not involved in those meetings.”

“Yes. Was the Financial Ombudsman Service included in those meetings with the Chancellor?”

“I want to broaden this out to the discussion the Chancellor is clearly having with regulators at the moment about coming up with ways to break down barriers to growth. I want to clarify, for the record, whether the Financial Ombudsman Service is one of the 17 regulators that is having regular conversations with the Cha…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if he will make a statement on US steel import tariffs.”

“The United States is our greatest ally and our greatest single trading partner. The UK and the United States are the biggest investors in each other’s economies. Yet this is a moment of great peril for the UK steel industry, because the Government have failed to engage with gusto with the new US Administration. The Pri…”

“In terms of the report we have read about the Treasury now putting in a submission to the court in the appeals process, what is the view of the Financial Ombudsman Service on that?”

“You have no comment at all on that.”

“It is also not in any consumer’s interest that the whole car finance industry shuts down on them and they are not able to access car finance. Can you give me your views on where the balance needs to be struck in terms of what we hear reported of the Treasury’s points to the court about the economic impact, as we unders…”

“You mentioned that you had had a meeting with the previous Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Is that the only meeting you have had with the Treasury about this issue?”

“And at ministerial level?”

“It is outrageous that we only know the detailed speculation about this deal because of the briefing from the Mauritian Prime Minister to his Members of Parliament. It is outrageous that the amount of money being talked about now is £18 billion, which is enough to pay for the winter fuel allowance for all our pensioners…”

“I was asking Mary.”

“You mentioned the revisions, some of which are vast and are certainly more than the size of a constituency. Are you saying that, now that you have started using more administrative data, such as on things like people’s national insurance numbers and so on, you are less likely to see revisions of that size?”

“My question is whether we should continue to expect to see revisions of the size that we have seen, or was that an anomalous period when there were these enormous revisions?”

“Can I just back to the subject that we have been discussing for the whole session, which is the labour force survey and the interaction between that and the net migration statistics? You had a letter from the chief economist of the Bank of England about how often you update the population weights. Can you tell us how y…”