This post focuses upon two particular elements that have been somewhat of mainstays here in Financial Regulation Matters , and those are the Treasury Select Committee and the tuition fee issue in the U.K. Upon Andrew Tyrie’s departure as Chair of the Treasury Select Committee in April of this year, we asked who it would be replacing him and how vivacious would they be in utilising the considerable influence that the Committee has. We had a brief taste of what Tyrie’s successor – Nicky Morgan – had to offer with her preliminary calls for RBS to release the controversial and likely extremely damaging report into the conduct of its ‘Global Restructuring Group’. Now, Morgan is returning to her old stomping ground from her time as Education Secretary and is launching an enquiry into the student loan system , ultimately aiming to examine recent policy changes like the tripling of tuition fees and the recent hike in interest rates related to the loans taken by students. So, today’s post ...