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Oral evidence
As part of this inquiry the Committee held the following evidence sessions: (to access the transcripts of these sessions please follow the link above)
THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2008
Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr John Kingman, Second Permanent Secretary, and Mr Clive Maxwell, Director, Financial Services, HM Treasury.
TUESDAY 18 DECEMBER 2007
Witnesses: Ms Angela Knight CBE, Chief Executive, British Bankers' Association; and Mr Adrian Coles, Director General, Building Societies Association.
TUESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2007
Witnesses: Sir Callum McCarthy, Chairman, and Mr Hector Sants, Chief Executive, Financial Services Authority; Ms Loretta Minghella, Chief Executive, Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2007
Witnesses: Mr E Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director and co-Chair of the Firmwide Risk Management Committee, Goldman Sachs; Lord Charles Aldington, Chairman, Deutsche Bank, London Branch; Mr Jeremy Palmer, Chairman and CEO, Europe, Middle East and Africa, UBS; and Mr William Mills, Chairman and Chief Executive of City Markets and Banking, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Citigroup.
Mr Richard Sexton, UK Head of Assurance, and Mr John Hitchins, UK Banking and Capital Markets Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Mr Chris Hitchen, Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds and Executive Chairman of the Railways Pension Trustee Company; Mr Peter Montagnon, Director of Investment Affairs, Association of British Insurers, Mr Guy Sears, Director, Wholesale, Investment Management Association, and Mr David Pitt-Watson, Chairman, Hermes Equity Ownership Service
TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2007
Witnesses: Professor Willem Buiter, LSE; and Professor Geoffrey Wood, CASS Business School, City University.
Mr Paul Taylor, Group Managing Director and Global Head of Sovereign, Public Finance, Corporate and Financial Institution Ratings, and Mr Charles Prescott, Group Managing Director, Financial Institutions, Fitch, Mr Michel Madelain, Executive Vice President, and Mr Frédéric Drevon, Senior Managing Director, Moody's, and Mr Ian Bell, Managing Director and Head of European Structured Finance and Mr Barry Hancock, Managing Director and Head of European Corporate and Government Services, Standard and Poor's
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER 2007
Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Mark Neale, Managing Director, Budget, Tax and Welfare, Mr Richard Hughes, Team Leader, Comprehensive Spending Review, Treasury, and Mr Clive Maxwell, Director, Financial Services, Treasury.
TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2007
Witnesses: Dr Matt Ridley, Chairman, Mr Adam Applegarth, Chief Executive, Sir Ian Gibson, Senior Non-Executive Director, and Sir Derek Wanless, Non-Executive Director, Northern Rock.
TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2007
witnesses: Sir Callum McCarthy, Chairman, and Mr Hector Sants, Chief Executive, Financial Services Authority.
THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2007
Witnesses: Mr Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor Responsible for Financial Stability, Mr Paul Tucker, Executive Director for Markets, Ms Kate Barker, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, and Dr Andrew Sentance, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England.