Speeches by Baldwin.

“On a point of order, Dame Siobhain. Is it orderly for me to point out that the NHS is suffering from a number of over-65s who sadly have a high level of mortality—”

“You mentioned that you had had a meeting with the previous Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Is that the only meeting you have had with the Treasury about this issue?”

“It is also not in any consumer’s interest that the whole car finance industry shuts down on them and they are not able to access car finance. Can you give me your views on where the balance needs to be struck in terms of what we hear reported of the Treasury’s points to the court about the economic impact, as we unders…”

“You have no comment at all on that.”

“In terms of the report we have read about the Treasury now putting in a submission to the court in the appeals process, what is the view of the Financial Ombudsman Service on that?”

“They are in a pending tray.”

“What impact is the current freeze having on your caseload?”

“I want to dig a bit deeper into this car finance issue, because car finance is obviously such a significant part of the economy. It is so significant for consumers. Just help me out here in terms of your point of view. It was helpful to hear that there was quite a lot of caseload in this area before the FCA decided to …”

“With a severance payment, clearly.”

“What I am hearing is that there is a severance payment, you are just not prepared to tell Parliament today what it is. I am taking away from this discussion that there is a severance payment.”

“Would the Committee be right in surmising that one of the areas of tension around the chief executive’s role was perhaps to do with these plans?”

“You have not been asked to come up with plans for growth or removing barriers to growth for the Chancellor?”

“That is fine. I am just looking for a yes or no. You are not a regulator and you were not involved in those meetings.”

“Yes. Was the Financial Ombudsman Service included in those meetings with the Chancellor?”

“I want to broaden this out to the discussion the Chancellor is clearly having with regulators at the moment about coming up with ways to break down barriers to growth. I want to clarify, for the record, whether the Financial Ombudsman Service is one of the 17 regulators that is having regular conversations with the Cha…”

“What changes is your organisation going to deliver with respect to these conversations?”

“For the record, can you rule out that the departure of Abby Thomas had anything to do with this car finance issue?”

“The United States is our greatest ally and our greatest single trading partner. The UK and the United States are the biggest investors in each other’s economies. Yet this is a moment of great peril for the UK steel industry, because the Government have failed to engage with gusto with the new US Administration. The Pri…”

“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade if he will make a statement on US steel import tariffs.”

“And at ministerial level?”