| Heading: |
Investment |
| Question ID: |
1814983 |
| UIN: |
61630 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5100 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the barriers to direct retail investment in shares by UK citizens; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of those barriers on economic growth. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4077 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Emma Reynolds
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| Answering Member handle: |
emmaforwycombe
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@emmaforwycombe
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The government is committed to supporting retail participation in UK capital markets to ensure consumers can benefit from the long-term financial security that investing in shares can provide. The government ran a Call for Evidence as part of the Financia... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |