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Equitable Life

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

496 c751 

Session

2008-09

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Equitable Life
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Proceeding contributions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Kramer | 496 c751 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make astatement on the parliame...

Liam Byrne | 496 c751 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for granting me the opportunity to answer questions on Equit...

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Geraldine Smith | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) What is the point of the ombudsman doing her report if the Government do not accept the recommendati...

Liam Byrne | 496 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I will just draw the House's attention back to the four areas in which the Government said...

Mark Hoban | 496 c752-3 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear that a year after the ombudsman published her damning report on the regulation of Eq...

Liam Byrne | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree that it is time that the policyholders of Equitable Life had the justice that the...

Liam Byrne | 496 c754 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not for the simple reason that, first, I do not believe that the Government should be the...

Mark Durkan | 496 c755-6 (Link to this contribution) Does the Chief Secretary not recognise that for many people Sir John Chadwick's exercise appears to ...

Michael Fallon | 496 c754 (Link to this contribution) Why will the Chief Secretary not announce a long-stop date by which the Government expect the bulk o...

Baroness Kramer | 496 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be very aware that Equitable Life policyholders have been quite dismayed, having h...

Paul Burstow | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) Time is definitely of the essence when it comes to getting the matter resolved. On the Minister's po...

Lord Redwood | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) How much compensation does the Minister envisage for his ex gratia scheme? I do not suppose that he ...

Liam Byrne | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) As I said in reply to another Conservative Member, my ambition is to come back to the House with a l...

Liam Byrne | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) I would not want to steer Sir John in respect of the conclusions that he has been asked to reach; it...

Gordon Prentice | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) How will Sir John Chadwick determine who has been hardest hit? He has access to Equitable Life recor...

Liam Byrne | 496 c752-3 (Link to this contribution) It is perfectly appropriate for the hon. Gentleman to seek to keep up the pressure and the momentum,...

Lord Cormack | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) Cannot the Minister realise that those suffering hardship—often extreme hardship, to use his own wor...

Liam Byrne | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) At this stage I would not prejudge the design of the scheme that Sir John has been asked to come bac...

Jeremy Browne | 496 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) After the ombudsman published the report with the damning title, "Equitable Life: a decade of regula...

Rob Marris | 496 c754 (Link to this contribution) I lost a small amount in the Equitable Life fiasco. May I urge my right hon. Friend not to be so stu...

Liam Byrne | 496 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) There have been three debates on Equitable Life and the Government's response to the ombudsman this ...

Liam Byrne | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) That would be a question for the business managers of the House. I want to tease out two points. Yes...

Liam Byrne | 496 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal first with the central question about the difference between compensation schemes, as pr...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) Given the very long delay, what consideration has been given to the possibility of interim emergency...

Liam Byrne | 496 c754 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely reasonable point to which I am entirely sympathetic. However, until Sir John ha...

Liam Byrne | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) That is a good question, on which I shall ask Sir John to reflect.

Liam Byrne | 496 c755 (Link to this contribution) That is not an estimate that I shall present to the House this afternoon; it is something that I sha...

Lord Young of Cookham | 496 c756 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a clear and irreconcilable difference between, on the one hand, the Government, and on ...

Subjects

Compensation Inquiries Insurance companies Equitable Life Assurance Society Maladministration Life insurance Equitable Life Ex-gratia Payment Scheme Review

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