Household Debt: Key Economic Indicators
Household debt: Data on the latest household debt statistics, including net lending, mortgage interest rates and insolvencies.
This Paper is a summary of many of the financial services legislative initiatives announced by the EU in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis in 2008/9.
EU financial services legislation (382 KB , PDF)
There is a considerable amount of legislation either in the European ‘pipeline’ or dependent upon decisions taken by other bodies at an international level. Some of the EU initiatives require Treaty changes, others do not. Some of the outstanding pieces of legislation are directly linked to the financial crisis, others pre date it, but have been amended in some cases to reflect new circumstances. This note tries to explain the various strands
Note: this document is of historic interest only. The proposals mentioned here have become legislation already and enacted in their several ways in the UK and in the rest of the EU.
EU financial services legislation (382 KB , PDF)
Household debt: Data on the latest household debt statistics, including net lending, mortgage interest rates and insolvencies.
There will be a debate in the Chamber on Thursday 17th October on the International Investment Summit.
This briefing covers the background to Child Trust Funds, savings accounts for children the government contributed to, and problems young adults face accessing them.