Public Affairs Update

Issue 35 - March 2007

This political digest covers parliamentary issues relevant to the building society sector.

Your feedback on this edition is most welcome. Please email Rachel Le Brocq with your comments at rachel.lebrocq@bsa.org.uk . Also email Rachel with any issues you have a particular interest in, and would like her to track.

Update includes:

• The Budget 2007
• Private Member's Bill - Financial Mutuals Arrangements Bill
• Treasury Publish Consultation Document on Unclaimed Asset Scheme
• Private Member's Bill - Pensions (Unclaimed Assets)
• Pomeroy Review of Christmas Hamper Schemes
• Treasury Select Committee inquiry into financial inclusion follow-up
• Ed Ball's Speech on Financial Exclusion
• Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Green Alliance
• Treasury Select Committee Inquiry - competition in Banking and the Future of Free Banking
• Treasury Select Committee Call for further evidence - unclaimed assets within the financial system
• Latest HMT Child Trust Fund Statistics Published
• Parliamentary Questions - Various
• Early Day Motions - Various
• Legislative Update
• Key Dates & Future Business
  

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