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	date	09/04/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Cash Dispensing: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps is he taking to seek to ensure that ATM operators maintain no charge access to machines in rural areas throughout the UK.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	242726
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government-established Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is closely monitoring developments within ATM provision. The PSR regulates LINK, the scheme which runs the UK’s ATM network and has used its powers to hold LINK to account over LINK’s commitments to preserve the broad geographic spread of the ATM network.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, LINK has put in place specific arrangements to protect free-to-use ATMs more than 1 kilometre away from the next nearest free-to-use ATM and has also enhanced its Financial Inclusion Programme, tripling the funding available to ATMs in the most deprived areas of the UK. LINK has also announced new additional premiums to safeguard the presence of free-to-use ATMs in remote and deprived areas.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/04/2019 11:17:22 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

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	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Funerals: Pre-payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of urgently bringing forward legislative proposals for the regulation of the sale of pre-paid funeral plans under the remit of the Financial Conduct Authority.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	225427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2019 answer text <p>The government launched a call for evidence on the regulation of pre-paid funeral plans in June 2018, having concluded that the current framework of self-regulation is not sufficient to ensure the fair treatment of consumers, and a more robust regulatory regime is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The call for evidence was launched in order to aid in the design of a more appropriate regulatory framework and noted that government’s initial preferred approach is to bring all funeral plan contracts into the scope of FCA regulation.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has now analysed the submissions to the call for evidence on pre-paid funeral plans and is currently reviewing the available policy options.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 28/02/2019 15:45:43 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell