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Financial Services Bill

Clause 29 inserts new sections into the FSMA Act 2000 to allow the FSCS to act on behalf of another scheme or authority, including a foreign compensation scheme. The purpose of the measure is to ensure that compensation can always be made quickly and effectively to claimants in cases where the FSCS is not responsible for paying the compensation itself. A crucial requirement is of course that acting for another scheme should not impose additional costs on the FSCS and its levy payers. Clause 29 therefore includes a number of provisions to ensure that the FSCS will take on minimal financial risk. These include provisions that allow the FSCS to decline to act for another scheme if it is not satisfied that additional costs would be reimbursed or that it would not receive the assistance it needs from the other scheme. Government Amendment 311 is a minor technical change to put beyond doubt that these provisions will not apply to the FSCS if it is asked to act on an ad hoc basis for the Treasury or another government department, and therefore ensures that the FSCS would not have any more exposure in such cases than if it was acting on behalf of a foreign scheme. I beg to move. Amendment 311 agreed. Amendments 312 to 322 had been withdrawn from the Marshalled List. Clause 29, as amended, agreed. Clause 30 : Information relating to financial stability Amendment 322A Clause 30 : Information relating to financial stability Amendment 322A Moved by