Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to maintain funding for financial inclusion through the Dormant Assets Scheme; and if she will make a statement.

At present, the government is considering over 3,300 responses to the public consultation on what the broad social and/or environmental purposes of the English portion of dormant assets should be going forwards.

The government plans to publish a response in early 2023 setting out these future purposes of the English portion.

Until this response has been published, I am afraid that I cannot commit to a government position on financial inclusion.