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Financial Services Bill

I do not quite know what to do with my amendments. On a slightly different point, the Minister said that the Government did not have to regard Amendment 10 as relevant because they did not agree with Amendment 9, which is about public consultation. There was no public consultation so there was nothing to publish. I made the point when I introduced my amendments that Amendment 10 would exist independently of Amendment 9 because there is already a consultation provided for in the Bill. There would be responses to the Treasury on this consultation. I suggest that those at least should be made plain and transparent. If the Government are serious about transparency in these new arrangements, why do they go to the trouble of setting out that there is a process and then get secretive about the outcome? Why is the minimalist consultation required in the Bill not to be transparent?