Question follow-through · 40154

Claims Management Services: Northern Ireland

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the Financial Conduct Authority's powers to regulate claims management companies in Northern Ireland.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
21 Mar 2025
Target answer date
25 Mar 2025
Answer
31 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of extending the Financial Conduct Authority's powers to regulate claims management companies in Northern Ireland.

  2. 25 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Government has no plans to extend the Financial Conduct Authority’s powers to regulate claims management activity in Northern Ireland, but continues to keep the territorial scope of the Financial Conduct Authority’s powers under review.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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