Rural Banking Services Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Rural Banking Services

Robin Millar Excerpts
Tuesday 20th July 2021

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Fay Jones Portrait Fay Jones
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I agree with the hon. Member. I hope the Minister will cover that in his summing up. As a beautiful constituency, we have one of the lowest broadband availability rates in the entire country, so those are twin-track problems that we need to fix at the same time.

Robin Millar Portrait Robin Millar (Aberconwy) (Con)
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I thank my hon. Friend for securing this debate. She could well be describing Aberconwy: it is beautiful and rural, and it has trouble with broadband and, unfortunately, the withdrawal of banking services. In my constituency, the experience of the residents and small businesses of Llanrwst is that first they saw banking and counter services withdrawn from the town and going down the coast to Llandudno, and they were told that they could travel to Llandudno. Now, they hear that the counter services in Llandudno are closing, at some banks, and moving further along the coast. These are areas that do not have the benefit of extensive public transport, so it is physically difficult to move from the valley to the coast—

James Gray Portrait James Gray (in the Chair)
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Order. Interventions must be brief. I call Fay Jones.