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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 13 Jan 2011
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Hilary Benn (LAB - Leeds Central) not of £2,000 but of £2 million. - Speech Link
2: Helen Goodman (LAB - Bishop Auckland) This morning, the Secretary of State for Justice announced the first prison closure programme since the - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (CON - Life peer) Friend’s concern about the proposed closure of those homes. - Speech Link
4: Nick de Bois (CON - Enfield North) namely that of the chief executive officer of NHS North Central London and that of the CEO of my constituency - Speech Link


Written Statements
Post Office Network - Tue 24 Jan 2012
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LDEM - Kingston and Surbiton) any separation of the businesses.I can now confirm that both of these pledges have been met. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Jobs and Growth - Thu 17 May 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: George Osborne (CON - Tatton) with a global reach while better protecting the taxpayer at home should one of those banks fail. - Speech Link
2: Lord Darling of Roulanish (LAB - Life peer) some of the banks in Europe? - Speech Link
3: David T C Davies (CON - Monmouth) to blame, when, in all, just £120 billion was given to the banks out of a total debt of £1 trillion, - Speech Link
4: Brian Binley (CON - Northampton South) Again and again the banks tell us that 85% of applications for money are met, and of course that is true - Speech Link
5: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) of banks calling in loans is the forced sale of assets, with businesses selling at a time not of their - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill - Wed 17 Apr 2013
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Charlie Elphicke (IND - Dover) the regulatory requirements on banks and because he had taken a whole load of money out of the banking - Speech Link
2: Chris Leslie (TIG - Nottingham East) A cursory study of the annual reports and accounts of some of the banks concerned—Opposition Members - Speech Link
3: None The final argument concerned the specific targeting of banks. - Speech Link
4: None The closure of tax offices, cuts of £2 billion to HMRC’s budget and the loss of 10,000 jobs will not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Postal Services Bill - Wed 16 Mar 2011
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (LAB - Life peer) Now one can access the majority of major high street banks via the Post Office. - Speech Link
2: Lord Borrie (LAB - Life peer) Not long after that, it was taken over by one of the four leading banks. - Speech Link
3: None There are many international examples of successful post banks. - Speech Link
4: Lord Clarke of Hampstead (LAB - Life peer) Alliance & Leicester of course has been swallowed up by Santander. - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Norwood Green (LAB - Life peer) Between them, these programmes resulted in the closure of 4,854 post offices. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Postal Services Bill - Wed 16 Mar 2011
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) Of course, the significant majority of high street banks are now going along with providing that service - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox (CON - Life peer) With a network larger than all of the high street banks combined, and 20 million customer visits each - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Norwood Green (LAB - Life peer) Closures as part of a national closure programme went through a form of public consultation, which allowed - Speech Link
4: Lord Rowe-Beddoe (CB - Life peer) My concern at Second Reading was that I wanted a definition of “programme of closure”—“programme” being - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 13 May 2013
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) They are now setting out to remove barriers to the entry of new banks. - Speech Link
2: Lord McFall of Alcluith (Lord Speaker - Life peer) I’d been on the board of a bank, I’d been involved in banks, I’d dealt with banks back in the 1980s and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (LAB - Life peer) We sought to prevent the closure of Consumer Focus. - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) creation of a network of regional banks, perhaps, following on from my noble friend Lord McFall, using - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
The Economy - Tue 06 Dec 2011
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: George Osborne (CON - Tatton) I remind people that retail deposits in British banks or the subsidiaries of foreign banks here in Britain - Speech Link
2: George Osborne (CON - Tatton) This will cover an estimated 15 banks, including the largest UK banks and the UK banking operations of - Speech Link
3: George Osborne (CON - Tatton) I am aware of our responsibilities as a shareholder in some banks. - Speech Link
4: Lord Darling of Roulanish (LAB - Life peer) of European banks, which remains for next summer. - Speech Link
5: Tobias Ellwood (CON - Bournemouth East) Europe’s banks, which a number of Members have mentioned. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Banking (Responsibility and Reform) - Tue 07 Feb 2012
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Keith Vaz (LAB - Leicester East) Friend will be aware that the current structures were set up following the closure of the Bank of Credit - Speech Link
2: Mark Field (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) have divested ourselves of our stake in those two banks. - Speech Link
3: Marcus Jones (CON - Nuneaton) me on to other issues, particularly the bailing out of the banks, state ownership of banks and state - Speech Link
4: Caroline Lucas (GRN - Brighton, Pavilion) Credit creation goes to the heart of how the banks operate. - Speech Link
5: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) At the end of the day, some of the banks have been bailed out with public money. - Speech Link