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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


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


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


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


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