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Staff costs dominate FCA’s £430m budget for 2013/14

by: IFAonline
  • 25/03/2013
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Staff costs dominate FCA’s £430m budget for 2013/14
The total amount required to fund the incoming Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) budgeted costs for 2013/14 has been estimated at £432.1m.

Just under a third of that amount – 30.3% – will be met via levies on investment, mortgage and general insurance intermediaries.

Most of the £432.1m will go towards meeting the new regulator’s £261.3m staff costs, it said.

The FCA plans to spend a total of £445.7m on ongoing regulatory activity in 2013/14, which includes staff costs and other fees, with £2.6m also required to fund regulatory reform implementation and £3.3m for recovery of scope for change activities.

However, offsetting these is an estimated £19.5m reduction as a result of underspends in 2012/13, principally reflecting the unused CEO contingency of £15m.

This leaves the FCA’s total annual funding requirement for 2013/14 at £432.1m.

The FCA is one of two organisations – alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority – set to replace the Financial Services Authority (FSA) next month.

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