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Banking Bill

The noble Baroness raises a very important point, although I am not sure that monthly accounting is absolutely the right way forward. However, I believe that the Treasury Select Committee in another place has asked the Government to produce timely information and to consolidate information about the financial consequences of all the various packages and initiatives that we have had over the past six months. I think that that would be to the benefit of Parliament, and no doubt to the benefit of the Government, if they were able to do so. Can the Minister tell us what the Government plan to do in response to that request and whether, in view of the exceptional circumstances in which we now find ourselves, the normal, rather staid principles of parliamentary accounting can be supplemented by additional, more periodic, statements, even if they do not go quite as far as the noble Baroness wishes?