Bank Services: Greater London

(asked on 4th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people in London, and in each London borough, who do not have a bank account.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 9th March 2015

The information is not available in the format requested. Benefit and Pension recipients who do not have a bank account are paid by Simple Payment.

As of 15th January 2015, there were 44,528 benefit recipients and pensioners in Great Britain being paid by Simple Payment.

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