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| Charlotte Hogg resigns as Deputy Bank of England Governor after scathing criticism from Treasury Select Committee | Charlotte Hogg resigns as Deputy Bank of England Governor after scathing criticism from Treasury Select Committee |
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| The Bank of England's new Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, Charlotte Hogg, has resigned after the Treasury Select Committee delivered a scathing assessment of her professional competence. | |
| In a report published on Tuesday the TSC said: "The Committee considers that her professional competence falls short of the very high standards required to fulfil the additional responsibilities of Deputy Governor for Market and Banking." | In a report published on Tuesday the TSC said: "The Committee considers that her professional competence falls short of the very high standards required to fulfil the additional responsibilities of Deputy Governor for Market and Banking." |
| The Bank said Ms Hogg, who has only been in position since 1 March, had voluntarily offered her resignation. | |
| Mark Carney, the Bank's Governor, said that he felt "deep regret" that Ms Hogg had chosen to resign and praised her work in overhauling the management of of the Bank's operations in her previous role as Chief Operating Office. | |
| The Chair of the Bank's governing Court, Anthony Habgood said that Ms Hogg had made a "huge contribution" to the Bank but that her decision to resign was understandable. | |
| "While Charlotte's decision by any measure exceeds the standard that would be expected in the private sector or would be required under statute, it is understandable in the circumstances and she has taken it with the best interests of the Bank at heart," he said. | |
| Earlier this month it emerged that Ms Hogg, who joined the Bank in 2013 as COO, had failed to formally register with the institution that her brother worked at Barclays. | |
| This was in contravention of the Bank's internal code of conduct, under which such potential conflicts of interest must be noted. | |
| Mr Habgood described this as a "very serious breach" to the TSC. | |
| Ms Hogg in her own earlier evidence to the TSC had said: “I am in compliance with all of our codes of conduct. I know because I helped to write them. I have discussed it with the company secretary.” | Ms Hogg in her own earlier evidence to the TSC had said: “I am in compliance with all of our codes of conduct. I know because I helped to write them. I have discussed it with the company secretary.” |
| She later wrote to the committee to apologise for inadvertently misleading them. | |
| But in its report the TSC argues that Ms Hogg's letter suggested she had not fully learned the lessons of her error, prompting their overall conclusion on her professional competence. | |
| In her resignation letter to Mr Carney and Mr Habgood, dated 13 March, Ms Hogg said that she had first offered her resignation the previous week but felt she should now "insist". | |
| "We, as public servants, should not merely meet but exceed the standards we expect of others," she wrote. "Failure to do so risks undermining the public's trust in us, something we cannot let happen." | |
| Private bankers at the weekend had said to the media that they would consider offering "the Hogg defence" if caught by their regulators, including the Bank of England, in a failure to comply with various disclosure requirements. | |
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