TCS v FSA: As it happened

Katrina Lloyd
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In the round, levels of capacity and ageism. We go step by step through the TSC's grilling of the FSA on the RDR.

Comments welcome below and we are also tweeting @IFAonlineUK and #TSCvsFSA. 3pm: Here we go. Quite a good turn out for this in Committee Room 8. Sants and Nicoll in the dock. Bet they are well prepared. Sants has done a few of these already though. TSC chief Andrew Tyrie describes RDR as a "sensitive" subject. He tries to get Sants on discrepancies in his past evidence about the objectives of the RDR saying his recent oral evidence makes no mention of consumers. Sants says this is an oversight and the basic objectives have not changed: sustainability and access for consumers. ...

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