Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2014-15

Witnesses Dr Nemat Shafik

Inquiry HMRC Business Plan 2014-16

Witnesses Lin Homer, Chief Executive, HM Revenue and Customs, Ruth Owen, Director General Personal Tax, HM Revenue and Customs, and Jim Harra, Director General Business Tax, HM Revenue and Customs

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2014-15

Witnesses Graham Parker CBE, Member, Budget Responsibility Committee, Office for Budget Responsibility

Inquiry Manipulation of Benchmarks

Witnesses David Bailey, Head of Markets Infrastructure and Policy, Financial Conduct Authority, and Finbarr Hutcheson, President, ICE Benchmark Administration and Rhona O’Connell, Head of Metals Research and Forecasts, Thomson Reuters, and Alberto Thomas, Partner, Fideres LLP.

Inquiry SME Lending

Witnesses Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority; Dr Andrea Coscelli, Executive Director, Markets and Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority; and Dan Moore, Project Director, SME Banking Market Study, Competition and Markets Authority.

Inquiry SME Lending

Witnesses Tony Boorman, Interim Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service, Chris Woolard, Director of Policy, Risk and Research, Financial Conduct Authority, and Nausicaa Delfas, Head of the Specialist Supervision Department, Financial Conduct Authority, Andrea Leadsom MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury, Alison Cottrell, Financial Services, HM Treasury, and Jeremy Pocklington, Director, Enterprise and Growth, HM Treasury

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2014-15

Witnesses Dr Ben Broadbent, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Inquiry Cost effectiveness of economic and financial sanctions

Witnesses Raoul Ruparel and Gary Campkin and John Lough, Roger Munnings and Dr Chi Kong Chyong

Inquiry SME Lending

Witnesses David Thorburn, Chief Executive, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, and Debbie Crosbie, Executive Director, Customer Trust and Confidence, National Australia Group Europe, Chris Sullivan, Deputy Group Chief Executive, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Derek Sach, Head of Global Restructuring Group, Royal Bank of Scotland.

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2014-15

Witnesses Anthony Habgood, Chair of Reed Elsiver and Whitbread

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2014-15

Witnesses Professor Kristin Forbes, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

Inquiry SME Lending

Witnesses Richard Pyman, CEO of Shawbrook, and Anders Bouvin, UK CEO of Handelsbanken and Martin Morrin, Chair of the Asset-based Lending Association and Managing Director at RBS Invoice Finance, Frances Coulson, Managing & Client Services Partner, Moon Beever Solicitors and Prof. Mark Watson-Gandy, Thirteen Old Square Chambers

Inquiry SME Lending

Witnesses Peter Hollis, Hollis and Co, Chris Lane, Kingston Smith, Ronel Lehmann,Lehmann Communications Ltd, Laurence Beere, L&H Hotels Ltd, Tim Murphy, Seneca Banking Consultants and Jeremy Roe,Bully-Banks

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2013-14

Witnesses Sir Winfried Bishoff, Chair of the Financial Reporting Council

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2013-14

Witnesses Spencer Dale, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Bank of England

Inquiry Appointment hearings, Session 2013-14

Witnesses Andy Haldane, Executive Director of Financial Stability, Bank of England

Inquiry Budget 2014

Witnesses Otto Thoresen, Director General, Association of British Insurers (at 10:00); Andrew Courts, Member, ACCA Global Tax Forum, Frank Haskew, Head of Tax Faculty, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and Patrick Stevens, Tax Policy Director, Chartered Institute of Taxation, (at 10:30).

Inquiry Budget 2014

Witnesses Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary, and James Bowler, Director, Strategy, Planning and Budget, HM Treasury

Inquiry Budget 2014

Witnesses David Geale, Head of Savings, Investments and Distribution, Financial Conduct Authority, Chris Woolard, Director of Policy, Risk and Research, Financial Conduct AuthorityDr Ros Altmann, Pensions Policy, Investment Banking, Savings and Retirement Expert, Jane Vass, Head of Public Policy, AgeUKChris Hannant, Director General, Association of Professional Financial Advisers, Robin Fieth, Chief Executive, Building Societies Association, Joanne Segars, Chief Executive, National Association of Pension Funds

Inquiry Budget 2014

Witnesses Robert Wood, Chief UK Economist, Berenberg Bank, Michael Saunders, Head of European Economics, Citi, and Paul Mortimer-Lee, Global Head, Market Economics, BNP Paribas (at 10:00); Paul Johnson, Director, and Gemma Tetlow, Programme Director, Pensions, Savings and Public Finances, Institute for Fiscal Studies (at 10:45).