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Early Day Motion
Bank closures (29 Signatures)
19 Mar 2025
Tabled by: Alex Brewer (Liberal Democrat - North East Hampshire)
That this House notes with concern that Santander is set to close its Fleet High Street branch at the end of June 2025;believes that this closure, along with others across the country, will greatly impact many in our community who rely on high street bank branches for essential services, particularly …
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


Deposited Papers

Mar. 10 2009

Source Page: Northern Rock: the impact of public support on competition. 48 p.
Document: DEP2009-0710.pdf (PDF)

Found: Due to consumer concerns about the stability of banks, consumers might ch oose Northern Rock because


Select Committee
Payment Choice Alliance
AOC0114 - Acceptance of Cash

Written Evidence Dec. 04 2024

Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)

Found: This lockdown included closure of all non-essential shops.


Deposited Papers

Nov. 26 2009

Source Page: A review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities: Final recommendations. 184 p.
Document: DEP2009-2935.pdf (PDF)

Found: banks and other corporates,the accounting and legal professions,representatives of A review of corporate


Select Committee
Innovate Finance, TrueLayer, and Curve

Oral Evidence Oct. 23 2024

Inquiry: FCA and PRA’s secondary competitiveness and growth objective
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Financial Services Regulation Committee

Found: over £1 billion—and we cover a wide range of verticals, including challenger banks, payments, regtech


Deposited Papers

Jul. 16 2009

Source Page: A review of corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities (The Walker Review). Incl. annexes. 142 p.
Document: DEP2009-2041.pdf (PDF)

Found: at its widest in case of banks.


Select Committee
Eighth Report - SME Finance

Report May. 08 2024

Committee: Treasury Committee (Department: HM Treasury)

Found: This will drive up the cost of finance for SMEs and may restrict the supply of lending as banks shift