Question follow-through · 41597
Safe Hands Plans: Insolvency
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the final report by the Complaints Commissioner entitled The FCA’s handling of Safe Hands Plans Limited, published on 11 March 2025, if she will make recommendations to the Financial Conduct Author
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the final report by the Complaints Commissioner entitled The FCA’s handling of Safe Hands Plans Limited, published on 11 March 2025, if she will make recommendations to the Financial Conduct Author
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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3 Apr 2025
Answer published
I am sympathetic to all the Safe Hands customers who have lost money, following the collapse of the firm in 2022. Once concerns were raised about the funeral plan market, the Government legislated to bring all pre-paid funeral plan providers and intermedi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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