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Carol Monaghan

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ATM Closures

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Out-of-area Education: Cared-for Children
Tuesday 4th December 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

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John Glen Portrait John Glen
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In response to my hon. Friend’s earlier request, the Government are aware of the Valuation Office Agency’s ruling and are considering their response, which will come in due course. He points out that there is a clear distinction in that behaviour.

Carol Monaghan Portrait Carol Monaghan (Glasgow North West) (SNP)
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The Minister talks about the importance of keeping an ATM in rural and deprived areas. The difficulty is that when there is only one ATM in such areas, it often experiences high levels of usage and regularly runs out of cash, which is worse than not having it at all in some ways. I encourage him to do what he can to ensure that we keep a network, even in such areas.

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It is obviously difficult for me to comment on each of our 64,400 ATMs, but the hon. Lady makes a reasonable point, which I will certainly take back to my next meeting with the Payment Systems Regulator.

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