Financial Institutions

143.

Mr. French
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next plans to meet the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board to discuss the other self-regulatory organisations.

Mr. Redwood
My right hon. Friend and I meet the chairman of the Securities and Investments Board to discuss a range of topics concerning the regulation of financial services as frequently as is necessary. No date has been fixed for the next meeting of this sort.