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Grand Committee
Financial Exclusion (Liaison Committee Report) - Wed 25 May 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) the middle of this, I never attribute social responsibility to banks; that it is something that banks - Speech Link
2: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) I think she saw banks roughly as most people see terrorists; she was not very fond of banks. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) all kinds of back-up for the relatively small local banks. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) the access-to-cash needs of local communities after the closure of a core cash service, in areas such - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: COP 26 - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Duke of Montrose (CON - Excepted Hereditary) There was a great parade of banks and investment institutions promising a variety of funding streams - Speech Link
2: Lord Bridges of Headley (CON - Life peer) Banco Santander is a member of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, which the noble Baroness - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) the emissions from generating electricity has arisen from the closure of coal-fired power stations and - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) of the Association of Drainage Authorities, president of National Energy Action and a member of the - Speech Link
5: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) of the inability of banks to finance SMEs. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Post Office Closures - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) closures, notably the permanent closure of the Brandon Street Crown branch in Motherwell town centre - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Only this year, SPAR announced the closure of 31 of its 48 Scottish counters. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) I used the example of Shepherds Bush, where NatWest, Barclays and Santander have all closed branches. - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (CON - Keighley) They also provide financial services, which is particularly important in the light of the closure of - Speech Link


Petitions
Santander Bath Road branch - Mon 06 Sep 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to ask that Santander - Speech Link
2: None regarding the closure of the Santander Bath Road branch. - Speech Link
3: None The Government are sorry to hear of her constituents’ disappointment at the planned closure of the branch - Speech Link
4: None I note that in the customer information pack that Santander has published for the Bath Road closure, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) cuts and underinvestment in early years services, and the closure of over 1,000 children’s centres, - Speech Link
2: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) looming cost-of-living crisis, with tax hikes for workers and tax cuts for banks and big business. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services Bill
Report stage - Wed 14 Apr 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None It was for this reason that a coalition of banks, campaigners and clinicians, led by Monzo, recently - Speech Link
2: Viscount Trenchard (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Of the eight banks that offered blockers, three banks’ blockers could be immediately turned on and off - Speech Link
3: None of these features, almost all the largest UK banks, as well as some of the digital challenger banks, - Speech Link
4: None On top of this, most of the major high-street banks already block credit card payments to gambling operators - Speech Link
5: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) It has done little to address the consequences of branch closures.The closure of bank branches has severe - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services Bill
Committee stage - Wed 10 Mar 2021
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None special resolution regime to enable the transfer of mortgages from failing banks. - Speech Link
2: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) paying down Treasury debt, after the decision to rescue the banks after the crisis of 2008. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sikka (LAB - Life peer) It relates to the July 1991 closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) a detailed assessment of the risk oversight and mitigation systems in place for non-banks. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Bank Branch Closures - Wed 18 Mar 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) It would be good to see the banks exhibit that same sense of public spiritedness, show a sense of responsibility - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) those at the top of the banks. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I tried to help a number of customers of those banks to do online banking, but it was lost on them. - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) by 38%—an alarming rate of closure, by any measure. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial and Social Emergency Support Package - Wed 25 Mar 2020
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: David Amess (CON - Southend West) Age Concern Southend has seen the closure of shops and suspension of services, and is very worried about - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) They may have to borrow from other people, or potentially banks, and when they get out of the crisis, - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) That will be the people’s bail-out, and it will require the sort of investment that the banks got in - Speech Link
4: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) I spoke yesterday to the chief executive of the Trussell Trust, who told me that of its 1,250 food banks - Speech Link
5: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) On the behaviour of the banks, I mentioned the 39.9% interest rates that the banks have announced that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Local Bank Closures - Wed 12 Jun 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) I am sure that all of us here now have experience of towns with no banks in them. - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) One sub-postmaster in my constituency told me that because of the closure of local banks, he was now - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That has been useful, so some of the banks—one of the banks, anyway—took the opportunity to do something.These - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The recent Santander announcement of closures is the latest in a long line of such announcements from - Speech Link
5: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Banks have been closing at a rate of nearly 70 a month. - Speech Link