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Westminster Hall
Banking Services: Accessibility - Thu 19 Mar 2026
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) One of the most frustrating elements for me, apart from the initial announcement of a closure of a bank - Speech Link
2: Andrew George (LD - St Ives) cards after the closure of Lloyds. - Speech Link
3: Katrina Murray (Lab - Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch) a number of banks, of the actions of one banking group in particular, and of a community fight back.When - Speech Link
4: David Chadwick (LD - Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) Banks should have a duty of care to their customers. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bank Closures and Banking Hubs - Thu 05 Jun 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) With the closure of Lloyds and Halifax, Bromsgrove high street will have lost four banks in just three - Speech Link
2: Jo Platt (LAB - Leigh and Atherton) With the ongoing closure of trusted high street banks, many communities are being left isolated and underserved - Speech Link
3: Naushabah Khan (Lab - Gillingham and Rainham) The closure of bank branches strips communities across our country not just of access to money, but of - Speech Link
4: Alison Griffiths (Con - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) The closure of the Santander in Rustington is just the latest blow. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Access to Banking Hubs: Hertfordshire - Wed 25 Jun 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) In my constituency of South West Hertfordshire, 89% of banks have closed since 2015, leaving us with - Speech Link
2: Gagan Mohindra (Con - South West Hertfordshire) We must prevent the closure of post offices, many of which are now run by a single person and are not - Speech Link
3: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) banks remain for now, but do not get me started on the state of the bus services in Broxbourne. - Speech Link
4: Susan Murray (LD - Mid Dunbartonshire) To allow the closure of banks without suitable access to a replacement banking hub is not just inconvenient - Speech Link
5: Emma Reynolds (Lab - Wycombe) As he will know, the set-up of banking hubs is a voluntary initiative by the banks. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Postal Services: Rural Areas - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) local services, all of which make access to alternatives more difficult when post offices or banks close.The - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bank Closures: Rural Areas - Mon 24 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) That brings me to one of my key asks of the banks, and the Minister as well. - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) In North Shropshire, four of my five market towns have lost all their banks and only two of them will - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) As Sarah Coles of Hargreaves Lansdown commented a year or so ago:“The closure of bank branches is a vicious - Speech Link
4: James Naish (Lab - Rushcliffe) the closure of core services. - Speech Link
5: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) I would value the support of the Treasury Bench to emphasise to the banks that they have a duty of care - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Closure of High Street Services: Rural Areas - Wed 05 Feb 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) The closure of shops, banks, post offices and other essential services has left many residents in town - Speech Link
2: Jamie Stone (LD - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) of banks, face-to-face banking is an essential part of the community, from preventing fraud and helping - Speech Link
3: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) Many of the banks in my constituency have shut their doors. - Speech Link
4: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Members raised the issue of high street banks and branch closures. - Speech Link
5: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross following the announcement of the closure of the Bank - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 19 Mar 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Inadequate financial support already means that some of the most vulnerable have to access food banks - Speech Link
2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham Yardley) The rising of the women is the rising of us all. - Speech Link
3: Colum Eastwood (SDLP - Foyle) After 14 years of the Tory Government and many of us wanting to see the back of them, can the Prime Minister - Speech Link
4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) That is an appalling legacy of 18 years of SNP Government. - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) difficult ever to get out of that level of dependency. - Speech Link


Petitions
Face to face banking services - Wed 18 Oct 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None regarding the closure of the Halifax Muswell Hill branch and the provision of in-person banking services - Speech Link
2: None The Government are sorry to hear of her constituents’ disappointment at the planned closure of the branch - Speech Link
3: None Firms are expected to carefully consider the impact of a planned closure on their customers’ everyday - Speech Link
4: None These assessments take place in the event of the closure of a core cash service or a request to LINK - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
High Street Bank Closures and Banking Hubs - Thu 11 May 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Wendy Morton (CON - Aldridge-Brownhills) the closure of NatWest’s Aldridge branch, which came so soon after the closure of Barclays and Lloyds - Speech Link
2: Elliot Colburn (CON - Carshalton and Wallington) the end of high street banks altogether. - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) The suburban communities of East Renfrewshire are scunnered; they are fed up to the back teeth of banks - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Entrepreneurs from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) I regret the closure of the Department for Work and Pensions support programme for self-employment, with - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) it.Over half of black business owners say that they have seen banks taking action to deal with the problem - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (LAB - East Ham) company directors, so that we had some sense of the scale of what is happening? - Speech Link