Speeches by McEvoy.

“I am sorry to bring us back to this so late in the day. On the deposits, from those of you who have customers using these products, how many people are using their savings in the LISA for 100% of their deposit?”

“Just so that I can understand, is it a small part of the deposit, and the majority is coming from the bank of mum and dad, or is it the majority of the deposit, and a small part is coming from an auntie or something?”

“Zoopla says that the average UK deposit is £34,000, but we can pick up the data after.”

“I am just interested as to whether it is the majority chunk.”

“Is this working for people without the bank of mum and dad, basically?”

“I am just slightly concerned about raising it to £500,000 for a first-time home. The deposit required for that, for a couple, is huge, even at 5%. I am not giving financial advice.”

“Ms Harrison, could you give us a bit more detail on the percentage of deposits that people who are using this ISA are taking out? Sorry, I will rephrase that. Are we talking about 5% or 10% deposits when we are looking at the products that your customers are mostly using?”

“That is the question that I was going to ask, but I just want to probe a bit further. This product can be a huge success for younger people using it to get on to the property ladder, and you are all passionate about that. That is brilliant. Surely, once they have their foot in the door into savings, we want to keep the…”

“Yes, I know, but in an ideal world that would be a suitable Government product. Q60            John Glen: Mr Lewis, you probably have more influence over most people than the Government in this domain, but there is the danger that something goes wrong with that adv…”

“The argument should be that the Government should be a trusted person to help you.”

“I take that point, Mr Lewis, because I share your ambition for clear communications and correspondence with the public. If it is a communication issue and you feel like people would not understand the new product, but with this one in five stat of self-employed people saving for a pension, the current status quo is not…”

“On that point, would you remove the cash element? It is a stocks and shares ISA or a cash ISA. If it was for the long-term saving, would you remove the cash element, which is, as we have outlined, suitable for your first-time buyers, but not necessarily for a 30-year long-term savings product? If you remove that, in th…”

“Ms Olufunwa, in your experience with Hoops, do you have many self-employed people coming in who are on the basic tax rate? Do you think it would be a suitable product for them as a pension alternative? What is your view, given your stance at the beginning, for this group specifically?”

“Sorry, I think that your evidence said that one in five self-employed people are saving for a pension.”

“On that point about the use of the product as it is now, we could split the product and accept that it is being used for first-time buyers—that is brilliant—but reform the second use of the product and target it specifically to self-employed people who are basic rate taxpayers. In those circumstances, where we were tar…”

“Will the consultation this spring for the next iterations of the codes include consultation with parliamentarians, or is it solely with platforms?”

“On implementation, would the Minister give clarity about the watermark for re-consultation and the point of delay of implementing the children’s codes under the Act? Amendments could be made to the children’s codes and I do not think they would trigger an automatic re-consultation with platforms. Could the Minister ela…”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I pay tribute to the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright) for his exceptional work and for his collegiate approach to this issue. In the interests of time, I will dive straight into the detail of what Ofcom is at ris…”

“That is absolutely right; I am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. It is important that we strike the right balance. For a long time, we have been behind on protecting children online. It is time now to use the Online Safety Act 2023 and the upcoming children’s codes to get it right the first time. We do …”

“I fully support what my hon. Friend says. Lots of parents in Darlington have said that although the default setting may be that children cannot access chat rooms on games or a more violent version of a game—because it is not just the phones and devices, but what they are accessing on those devices that really matters—t…”