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Commons Chamber
Bank Closures: Rural Areas - Mon 24 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) That brings me to one of my key asks of the banks, and the Minister as well. - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) In North Shropshire, four of my five market towns have lost all their banks and only two of them will - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) As Sarah Coles of Hargreaves Lansdown commented a year or so ago:“The closure of bank branches is a vicious - Speech Link
4: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) the closure of core services. - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I would value the support of the Treasury Bench to emphasise to the banks that they have a duty of care - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Closure of High Street Services: Rural Areas - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) The closure of shops, banks, post offices and other essential services has left many residents in town - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) of banks, face-to-face banking is an essential part of the community, from preventing fraud and helping - Speech Link
3: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) Many of the banks in my constituency have shut their doors. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Members raised the issue of high street banks and branch closures. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross following the announcement of the closure of the Bank - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Inadequate financial support already means that some of the most vulnerable have to access food banks - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) The rising of the women is the rising of us all. - Speech Link
3: Colum Eastwood (SDLP - Foyle) After 14 years of the Tory Government and many of us wanting to see the back of them, can the Prime Minister - Speech Link
4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) That is an appalling legacy of 18 years of SNP Government. - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) difficult ever to get out of that level of dependency. - Speech Link


Petitions
Face to face banking services - Wed 18 Oct 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None regarding the closure of the Halifax Muswell Hill branch and the provision of in-person banking services - Speech Link
2: None The Government are sorry to hear of her constituents’ disappointment at the planned closure of the branch - Speech Link
3: None Firms are expected to carefully consider the impact of a planned closure on their customers’ everyday - Speech Link
4: None These assessments take place in the event of the closure of a core cash service or a request to LINK - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
High Street Bank Closures and Banking Hubs - Thu 11 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) the closure of NatWest’s Aldridge branch, which came so soon after the closure of Barclays and Lloyds - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) the end of high street banks altogether. - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) The suburban communities of East Renfrewshire are scunnered; they are fed up to the back teeth of banks - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) I regret the closure of the Department for Work and Pensions support programme for self-employment, with - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) it.Over half of black business owners say that they have seen banks taking action to deal with the problem - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) company directors, so that we had some sense of the scale of what is happening? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
West Coast Main Line: Services - Thu 15 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (CON - Ynys Môn) It has been part of the very fabric of life for 175 years. - Speech Link
2: David Jones (CON - Clwyd West) I guess that the debate is of interest to a considerable number of Members of this House, and I suspect - Speech Link
3: Robin Millar (CON - Aberconwy) Each railway job cost hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer money to protect.The pandemic has changed - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
Report stage - Wed 07 Dec 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) a written ministerial statement before the formal closure of that review, and table amendments to the - Speech Link
2: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) too many examples of banks knowingly, or sometimes unknowingly, financing the activities of companies - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) of regulation has been very positive, in terms of forcing the banks and others in the sector to become - Speech Link
4: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) In fact, I negotiated the deal with the Post Office on behalf of the banks to open up post offices to - Speech Link
5: John Baron (CON - Basildon and Billericay) That is the sort of advice that banks, building societies and many others could give, without getting - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Financial Services and Markets Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee stage: 7th sitting - Tue 01 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) ” insert “free of charge”.This amendment makes reference to the provision of free of charge cash access - Speech Link
2: None “—(a) an absence of free of charge cash access services in a locality in a part of the United Kingdom - Speech Link
3: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) Member for Grantham and Stamford, in advance of the closure of the HSBC branch in Bourne, shared concerns - Speech Link
4: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) of members of the Committee. - Speech Link
5: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) closure of a core cash service or a request made by a local community, or indeed by a diligent Member - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Services and Markets Bill
2nd reading - Wed 07 Sep 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) A number of banks have closed in our constituency—I believe there have been 10 or 11. - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) the light of the closure of the local Santander Bath Road branch. - Speech Link
3: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton) I receive correspondence from my constituents telling me how the closure of banks and the lack of free - Speech Link
4: Paul Girvan (DUP - South Antrim) Member has highlighted a number of banks and areas that are being decimated by banks removing themselves - Speech Link
5: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) At the moment, I am afraid, banks are not waking up of their own volition to the importance of maintaining - Speech Link