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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/57872/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The UK Government is committed to supporting a healthy and legitimate remittance sector, and ensuring that UK citizens are able to continue to remit funds safely to family abroad. The progress of the Action Group on Cross Border Remittances is on track and the group is next due to meet on 27 June 2014. Further information on the Action Group, including future meeting dates can be found on the group's web page: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/helping-developing-countries-economies-to-grow/supporting-pages/enabling-the-continued-flow-of-remittances\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/helping-developing-countries-economies-to-grow/supporting-pages/enabling-the-continued-flow-of-remittances<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p>A key output of the group is improved guidance, both for financial institutions which provide banking facilities for MSBs and for MSBs themselves on how to comply with their anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism obligations. These two key pieces of guidance were endorsed by the Action Group in its most recent meeting and are subject to normal approval processes.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The UK Government is liaising closely with the Somali Government on activity underway to ensure the continued flow of remittances from the UK to Somalia. The Ambassador of Somalia to the UK (or his representative) has attended all of the Advisory Group Meetings for the UK-Somali Safer Corridor. Officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for International Development and World Bank have also held bilateral meetings with the Ambassador.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/57976/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>95 per cent of communities in the lowest quartile of the government deprivation index now have free-to-use ATMs within their area or less than two thirds of a mile from the area's centre. This has brought access to free-to-use ATMs to over 1.5 million people and progress towards covering even more communities continues.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>LINK has established a Financial Inclusion Programme to provide free-to-use ATMs where they are needed, by installing ATMs that are subsidised to make their operation commercially viable for operators. The cost of this subsidy is shared out among LINK member banks. 1,400 target areas now have access to an industry subsidised ATM through the programme.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>I am aware Toynbee Hall is due to complete research on this issue shortly.<\/p>"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/301", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Richard Burden"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/58023/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Consistent with the approach taken by successive governments there are no plans to exempt Attend Allowance recipients from Vehicle Excise Duty. However, all taxes are kept under review as part of the annual Budget process.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4027", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes"}
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      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/50496/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p><strong>The breakdown of the departmental private office Government Procurement Card number of individual transactions for 2005-06 to 2009-10 is in the table below. There are three types of spend within the definition of GPC procurement, lodge and corporate cards.<\/strong><\/p><p> <\/p><table><tbody><tr><td> <\/td><td><p><strong>2005-06<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>2006-07<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>2007-08<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>2008-09<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>2009-10<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Chancellor of the Exchequer<\/p><\/td><td><p>486<\/p><\/td><td><p>472<\/p><\/td><td><p>340<\/p><\/td><td><p>480<\/p><\/td><td><p>501<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Chief Secretary<\/p><\/td><td><p>191<\/p><\/td><td><p>134<\/p><\/td><td><p>100<\/p><\/td><td><p>74<\/p><\/td><td><p>199<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Exchequer Secretary<\/p><\/td><td><p>116<\/p><\/td><td><p>117<\/p><\/td><td><p>137<\/p><\/td><td><p>112<\/p><\/td><td><p>130<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Economic Secretary<\/p><\/td><td><p>112<\/p><\/td><td><p>220<\/p><\/td><td><p>155<\/p><\/td><td><p>108<\/p><\/td><td><p>36<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Financial Secretary<\/p><\/td><td><p>266<\/p><\/td><td><p>198<\/p><\/td><td><p>166<\/p><\/td><td><p>259<\/p><\/td><td><p>213<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Financial Services Secretary<\/p><\/td><td><p>N/A<\/p><\/td><td><p>N/A<\/p><\/td><td><p>N/A<\/p><\/td><td><p>N/A<\/p><\/td><td><p>152<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>1171<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>1141<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>898<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>1033<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>1231<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 6 May (WA 368), how many financial transactions there were using Government Procurement Cards in 2006\u201307 in the ministerial private office of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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