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<p>The Government believes that widespread access to cash remains extremely important
to the day-to-day lives of many consumers and businesses. That is why the Government
continues to engage with the regulators and industry in this area.</p><p> </p><p>In
2015, the Government established the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), with a statutory
objective to ensure that the UK’s payment systems work in the interests of their users.
As a result, the PSR is closely monitoring developments within ATM provision, and
has used its powers to ensure LINK meets its commitment on maintaining the broad geographical
spread of free-to-use ATMs.</p><p> </p><p>The Treasury has not made an estimate of
the number of free-to-use ATMS that have been converted to pay-to-use in each of the
last five years. Detailed statistical data on the number of free-to-use and pay-to-use
ATMs since 1998 is publicly available on the LINK website.</p>
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