Source · Select Committees · Treasury Committee
Recommendation 13
13
Paragraph: 78
We believe that effective scrutiny of regulatory proposals should be carried out through a targeted...
Conclusion
We believe that effective scrutiny of regulatory proposals should be carried out through a targeted approach. Each new proposal made by the Financial Conduct Authority or by the Prudential Regulatory Authority under the future financial services regulatory framework would be put out for consultation. Industry stakeholders and civil society groups would have an opportunity to put forward views, as would Parliament, both through the select committee system and through the work of individual Members of either House. If any matter of public interest were to arise that we deemed sufficiently important to scrutinise in more detail, or indeed challenge, we would do so.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Third, I welcome the Committee’s recommendation that a ‘targeted approach’ to scrutiny by Select Committees is the appropriate model for Parliamentary scrutiny of regulator activity, whereby the Committee should scrutinise the activities of the regulators in more detail where it considers there is a wider public interest in doing so. As I set out in my evidence session, this is more appropriate than the approach taken by the ECON