Question follow-through · 38031
Financial Conduct Authority and Payment Systems Regulator: Mergers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of merging the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of merging the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has carried out important work to support the UK’s world leading payments sector. However, moving forward, the Government wishes to see a more streamlined regulatory environment with minimal overlap between regulators’ ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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