Question follow-through · 42094
Financial Services: Switzerland
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the UK-Switzerland Financial Services Mutual Recognition Agreement to cover additional financial services sectors.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 4 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of expanding the UK-Switzerland Financial Services Mutual Recognition Agreement to cover additional financial services sectors.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Berne Financial Services Agreement is a ground-breaking mutual recognition agreement which enables financial services firms to provide certain services on a cross-border basis to wholesale and sophisticated clients. It is rooted in the high quality of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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