Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, has stepped up his efforts to make the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) more accountable to Parliament than its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
The Conservative MP brought up the issue during questions to the Chancellor in the House of Commons on Tuesday, pointing out the difficulty the committee had in getting the FSA to produce a report into the failure of RBS. He asked: "Does the Chancellor agree that accountability to Parliament would be better served if the Financial Services Bill were amended to require the new regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, to respond to similar such reasonable requests from the Treasury Committee?" In reply, George Osborne said he would "listen to any proposals put to us" and also pointed...
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