Reference Case Number: FOI10908
Freedom of Information: Right to know request:
Please provide all information to show the number of reports the FCA received specific to only 'Blackmore' or 'Blackmore Bond' and the date on which each was received. To help, I have attached the response provided to the same FOIA request that the Telegraph submitted to City of London Police [COLP] in 2021.
Please provide this requested information in the same format as that with which the COLP provided the information.
FCA response:
Before we respond to your specific request, we would like to draw your attention to the letter we sent to the Treasury Select Committee, which provides useful context about the issues associated with the collapse of Blackmore Bonds plc.
While you have not specified a timeframe above, we have used the same timeframe in FOI10355 which was 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020 since this is a refinement of that request.
Further, we would also like to explain that we have taken ‘report’ to mean external contacts which mention 'Blackmore' or 'Blackmore Bond'. Such contacts can be received across our organisation (including our Consumer Supervision Hub), and we have run key word searches looking at contacts received that contain the words 'Blackmore' or 'Blackmore Bond' in the subject line. These contacts could have been received for a number of reasons.
The table below sets out the total number of contacts which contain the term ‘Blackmore’ in the subject line during the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020 and broken down by month and year:
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Contacts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 33 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 28 |
| April | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| May | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| June | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| July | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| August | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 27 |
| September | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| October | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| November | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 20 |
| December | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 23 |
| Total | 6 | 13 | 53 | 24 | 70 | 57 | 223 |
Of these contacts, some relate specifically to ‘Blackmore Bond’. The table below sets out the number of those contacts which contain this term in the subject line for the same period:
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Contacts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackmore Bonds | 0 | 9 | 43 | 7 | 51 | 42 | 152 |