Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) people operate without chequebooks on a daily basis, and no retailers, as far as I am aware, accept cheques - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) That is not the position of the Government. - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Cheques may be on the way out, but there are still circumstances where they are required. - Speech Link
4: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) financial inclusion has been a hot potato passed between the FCA, the Treasury and other regulators and Departments - Speech Link
5: Bim Afolami (CON - Hitchin and Harpenden) It is important that the regulators and the Government work together to find a system whereby the Government - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Victoria Prentis (CON - Banbury) The Government stand with Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia’s invasion. - Speech Link
2: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) Friend agree that Departments, regulators and industry, perhaps guided by an anti-scams taskforce, could - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) He signed the cheques. How much is he going to get back? - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) The Government have been reasonable. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) We have seen the power or the proposed amendment the Government intend to bring forward. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) Most of us do not realise it, but when we use our credit card, phone or cheques—if we use cheques—we - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) I was in the FCA 10 years ago, or whatever, and I saw all the letters going between Departments and the - Speech Link
4: None Does anybody on the Government side wish to open the questioning? - Speech Link
5: None I have spent a lot of my life in finance and in policymaking work for the Government. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) In the words of the letters that banks used to send out to clients about cheques, “The words and the - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of London (Bishops - Bishops) As we have already heard, departments have been asked to double their efforts to make savings on spending - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) very frankly this morning, an ongoing efficiency and reprioritisation review has started, covering all departments - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Departments have been asked to find efficiencies. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) all other departments, but I cannot disagree with her; these are all very important. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) On access to cash, back in the day, after the financial crisis, the big banks wanted to ditch cheques - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (CON - Mid Derbyshire) What do people do with cheques these days? Many people need access to a bank. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) a good step forward, but this is always passed between the FCA, the Treasury, other regulators and Departments - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am old-fashioned, Mr Deputy Speaker; I use cheques all the time, and I use cash. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I am old-fashioned in preferring to use cash if at all possible, although I now use cheques and credit - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) What discussions have the Government had with the Irish Government about what our failure to tackle this - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) His entire Government have collapsed around him. - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) This is not the only area where our two Departments work together in the national interest to deliver - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) all the Departments, in a way that is aligned and co-ordinated and which really delivers on very broad - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) For example, on climate change, we have met the Government and the M10 has met the Government to talk - Speech Link
3: Neil O'Brien (CON - Harborough) Departments—to go through the processes at pace and to work collectively is just as important as the - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) for sign-offs and cheques and challenges when government can give us the money to deliver.There are - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) , being pursued by the Welsh Government. - Speech Link
2: Gareth Davies (CON - Grantham and Stamford) We would have to find that money from other Departments, or raise new money through higher taxes. - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) We are not talking necessarily about sending everybody cheques every month, and millionaires getting - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) But I say to him and to the Government that this is not okay. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) a foreign Government is, and how that is addressed. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) and even Parliaments, to write blank cheques for the security and intelligence services every time they - Speech Link
3: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) It is not just the Government who do not think it is fit for purpose. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) The Government accept that. - Speech Link
5: Jeremy Wright (CON - Kenilworth and Southam) The Government accept that. - Speech Link
6: Steve Baker (CON - Wycombe) inspections, I have found that the substantial compliance teams in each organisation and the relevant departments - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) A Labour Government would rise to the moment where this Government have badly failed. - Speech Link
2: Jon Trickett (LAB - Hemsworth) What do the Government offer? - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) significantly behind the rest of the G7, yet there is little recognition or action by the Treasury or other key Departments - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) companies that want to become landowners—to get huge tracts of land, evict tenant farmers and get massive cheques - Speech Link