16 November 2004

'Stakeholder' Savings and Investment Products Regulations: Government Response

Stakeholder products are a suite of simple, low-cost, risk-controlled savings and investment products that will be launched in April 2005. This response sets out the Government’s final position for the “stakeholder” cash deposit and medium term stakeholder products.

This document follows the consultation that was launched on 17th June 2004. The product specifications and regulations have been finalised in response to consultation responses the Treasury have received. These regulations were laid before Parliament today.

Paper copies are available, free of charge, by contacting:

Correspondence and Enquiry Unit
HM Treasury
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ

Tel: 020 7270 4558
Fax: 020 7270 4574
E-mail: ceu.enquiries@hm-treasury.gov.uk

Those who would like copies of the non-confidential responses to the consultation should contact Sarah Douch at the following address.

Sarah Douch
Stakeholder Regulations
Savings & Investment Products Team
HM Treasury
1 Horse Guard’s Road
London
SW1A 2HQ

Fax: 020 7451 7642
E-Mail: Sarah.Douch@hm-treasury.x.gsi.gov.uk

The document “’Stakeholder’ Savings & Investment Products Regulations: Government Response” is available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page .

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PDF file of ’Stakeholder’ Savings & Investment Products Regulations: Government Response (259KB)

Other useful documents relating to this consultation are:

The PDF file of the "Deloitte Report: “Assessing the likely market impacts of charge caps on retail investment products – July 2003" is also available as individual chapters:

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