Cash Dispensing

(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what records his Department holds on how many (a) free to use ATM machines and (b) charging ATM machines there have been in each local authority area in England and Wales in each year since 2010.


Answered by
 Portrait
Simon Kirby
This question was answered on 19th December 2016

The Treasury does not hold any information on the number of free to use or charging ATMs broken down by local authority.

The Treasury does hold aggregate figures for the UK, published by the LINK payment system.

The number of ATMs in the UK is at an all-time high of nearly 70,000 machines, having risen from 36,000 in 2001. The number of free-to-use ATMs is also at an all-time high of over 53,000 and over 98% of all ATM cash withdrawals by UK cardholders in the UK are made free of charge.

LINK, the network which connects the UK’s ATM machines, runs a financial inclusion programme which subsidises some independent ATM providers to allow them to offer a free cash withdrawal service in those areas of greatest need. LINK has identified 1,694 rural and/or deprived ‘target’ areas, and 87% of these areas are now served by 916 subsidised cashpoints, up from up from 171 in 2007.

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