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Commons Chamber
RBS Global Restructuring Group and SMEs - Thu 18 Jan 2018
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Vince Cable (LDEM - Twickenham) Bostock, is now chief executive of Santander. - Speech Link
2: Jo Stevens (LAB - Cardiff Central) businesses and homes as a consequence of the banks’ actions? - Speech Link
3: Alan Campbell (LAB - Tynemouth) At the heart of the motion is the proposition that several banks deliberately managed the closure of - Speech Link
4: Chris Ruane (LAB - Vale of Clwyd) George has been a victim of big banks, small banks, dodgy accountants, solicitors and valuers for the - Speech Link
5: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) of these banks have suffered significant financial losses. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 27 Mar 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) What assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the proposed closure of Jobcentre - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (LAB - Sheffield South East) be any net saving as a result of the closure of Eastern Avenue? - Speech Link
3: Mike Freer (CON - Finchley and Golders Green) The proposed closure of the Jobcentre Plus at Finchley Central, which is a major transport hub, will - Speech Link
4: Heidi Alexander (LAB - Lewisham East) Nearly a quarter of the jobcentres earmarked for closure are in London, and, as the Minister will know - Speech Link
5: David Hanson (LAB - Delyn) Has any of the team seen today’s news about the one-hour-a-month contract offered by Santander bank? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Technical and Further Education Bill
Committee: 3rd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Wed 01 Mar 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) The ongoing work of the area reviews may or may not lead to closure as a result of mergers. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) of the interests of creditors. - Speech Link
3: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) of the different parts of the UK. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Technical and Further Education Bill (Seventh sitting)
Committee Debate: 7th sitting: House of Commons - Thu 01 Dec 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kelvin Hopkins (IND - Luton North) The closure of a college in one town and having to go to a town many miles further on will cause great - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) He asked that question in our evidence sessions, and one of the banks said, “No, our whole purpose is - Speech Link
3: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) about transferring students can affect the closure of courses. - Speech Link
4: Ranil Jayawardena (CON - North East Hampshire) However, the other banks, particularly Santander, said that the certainty would allow them to lend more - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Technical and Further Education Bill (First sitting)
Committee Debate: 1st sitting: House of Commons - Tue 22 Nov 2016
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) Most of our members have HE as part of their remit. - Speech Link
2: Kelvin Hopkins (IND - Luton North) use of maths and the loss of statistics from the range of qualifications available. - Speech Link
3: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) Mergers do not necessarily mean the closure of sites, so they do not mean the end of provision for students - Speech Link
4: None Since the publication of the insolvency regime, banks and pension fund managers have been responding - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Financial Services Bill - Mon 11 Jun 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) We must all recognise that if we do not change the responsibilities of the boards of banks and those - Speech Link
2: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) The purpose of the Glass-Steagall Act was to enforce a separation of investment banks from retail banks - Speech Link
3: Lord Burns (CB - Life peer) that I am chairman of a regulated bank, Santander UK, and a shareholder in Santander Group. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) The overnight collapse of one of Britain’s most historic merchant banks caused ripples of concern. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Post Office Services - Thu 16 Jan 2014
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: John Robertson (LAB - Glasgow North West) owing to loss of synergies. - Speech Link
2: Jenny Willott (LDEM - Cardiff Central) billion to guarantee the size of the network until 2015 and to end the closure programmes run by the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tomlinson Report - Tue 17 Dec 2013
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Guto Bebb (IND - Aberconwy) significant concern about banks’ behaviour.Since the publication of the report and its findings, there - Speech Link
2: Guto Bebb (IND - Aberconwy) We should not take our eye off the behaviour of other banks and there are issues within those banks, - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) Some 89% of small businesses are locked into the big five banks. - Speech Link
4: Sajid Javid (CON - Bromsgrove) banks be split into small banks focusing solely on retail and commercial lending as a means of improving - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Food Banks - Wed 18 Dec 2013
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) simply a result of the increased prevalence of the food banks. - Speech Link
2: Jamie Reed (LAB - Copeland) numbers of people who need the services of the food banks. - Speech Link
3: Tony Baldry (CON - Banbury) experience of running food banks. - Speech Link
4: Anne Begg (LAB - Aberdeen South) the increase in the use of food banks. - Speech Link
5: William Bain (LAB - Glasgow North East) Is this low pay crisis not one of the key drivers of the explosion in the use of food banks? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Feb 2014
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) closure of the Halifax and Huddersfield A and E departments are serious for an area such as ours. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) May we have a debate on the role of the banks in our communities? - Speech Link
3: Lord Lansley (CON - Life peer) Many Members will have constituents who are worried about the closure of bank branches—it is not just - Speech Link
4: Tom Blenkinsop (LAB - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) The Prime Minister speaks highly of the work that food banks do in all our communities, so will a Minister - Speech Link