Current status: Answered by Jim Wallace on 6 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in establishing a Financial Services Strategy Group.
The first meeting of the Financial Services Strategy Group is now scheduled for 24 November 2003. I will chair the group, whose members are listed in the table:
| Name | Title | Organisation |
| Bill Black | Director Account Management Operations | The Royal Bank of Scotland |
| Sandy Boyle | Deputy General Secretary | Unifi |
| John Campbell | Managing Director | State Street Investment Manager Solutions Europe Ltd |
| Mary Campbell | Director | Blas Limited |
| Paul Day | Managing Director | Morgan Stanley & Company International Ltd |
| Amanda Harvie | Chief Executive | Scottish Financial Enterprise |
| David Henderson | Group Chief Executive | Aegon UK |
| Iain Lumsden | Group Chief Executive | Standard Life |
| Jim McFarlane | Chief Executive | Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh & Lothian |
| George Mitchell | Governor | Bank of Scotland |
| John Quigley | Scottish Regional Secretary | Amicus |
| Susan Rice | Chief Executive | Lloyds TSB Scotland Plc |
| Patrick Snowball | Group Executive Director, General Insurance | Aviva Plc |
| Ben Thomson | Chief Executive | Noble Group Ltd |
| David Thorburn | Chief Operating Officer | Clydesdale Bank Plc |
| David Wallace | Director of Operations | Abbey |
| Willie Watt | Chief Executive | Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd |
| Mark Wood | Chief Executive | Prudential Assurance UK & Europe |
| Peter Wood | Chairman | esure |