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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


Westminster Hall
Telephone and Online Scams - Tue 04 Jun 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) In the past three or four years, we have seen the closure of branches in the villages and towns of Milnthorpe - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) thousands of pounds, but only a fraction of that amount was refunded by banks. - Speech Link
3: Victoria Atkins (CON - Louth and Horncastle) The next step will be for banks to agree ways of operating that allow for the freezing of funds, a system - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Financial Exclusion: Access to Cash - Tue 21 May 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) The combined number of banks and building societies is falling steadily, and in 2018, the number of free-to-use - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) of ATMs and the closure of bank branches. - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) the country, we have seen banks closing, with a 38% reduction in the number of banks since 2010. - Speech Link
4: Ruth George (LAB - High Peak) cash, as well as the lack of banks. - Speech Link
5: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) As a result of the closure of the Greater Milton and Possilpark credit union, 4,212 members have had - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Whitsun Adjournment - Thu 23 May 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) heavy engineering, and the closure of coal mines, so we need to do something to retain a strategically - Speech Link
2: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) I am reminded of the closure of Ravenscraig in Lanarkshire in Scotland in 1992. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kerr (CON - Stirling) each country of the United Kingdom whilst protecting the cohesion of the single market of one of the - Speech Link
4: Paul Sweeney (LAB - Glasgow North East) The latest announcement was the closure of the Santander branch, so I have seen credit unions becoming - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Post Office Network - Thu 25 Apr 2019
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) From the reaction of people in my constituency to the Crown branch closure in the centre of Motherwell - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) The majority of banks responded positively, but one of our biggest banks said that it was not directly - Speech Link
3: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) branch network of all UK banks. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Closure of Santander Banks - Thu 07 Feb 2019
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) The Lanark High Street branch of Santander is just one among 15 branches in Scotland that will be closing - Speech Link
2: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) The consequences of further closures of banks and high street stores in the Clydesdale area cannot be - Speech Link
3: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) All the major high street banks have signed up to the standard, which commits banks to a number of outcomes - Speech Link
4: John Glen (CON - Salisbury) the full range of tools and sanctions at its disposal to work with banks where they fall short. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 21 Mar 2019
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Ian Mearns (LAB - Gateshead) access to cash, the closure of courts and the effect on access to justice, reducing the use of physical - Speech Link
2: Ann Clwyd (LAB - Cynon Valley) Our constituents need some sort of explanation of how Brexit is affecting the supply of medicines, when - Speech Link
3: John Howell (CON - Henley) for its annexation of that part of Ukraine? - Speech Link