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date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Bank Services: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is his policy to introduce legislative proposals to establish a guaranteed minimum level of service by high-street banks in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	118947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>I discussed RBS Group’s recent branch closure announcement with the Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy on 4 December.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to financial services. While the decision to close a branch remains a commercial judgement for banks, the impact on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services, including specialist assistance for customers who need more help. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>99% of banks’ personal and 95% of banks’ business customers are now able to withdraw cash, deposit cash and cheques, and make balance enquiries at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. At Autumn Budget 2017, I wrote to the Post Office and UK Finance to ask them to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and SMEs. Government will have provided nearly £2 billion during the period 2011 to 2018 to maintain and modernise the Post Office network.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 118949 118952 119030 119033 question first answered 18/12/2017 17:36:13 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

805277

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Banks: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on local communities of the bank branch closures in Scotland recently announced by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	118949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>I discussed RBS Group’s recent branch closure announcement with the Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy on 4 December.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to financial services. While the decision to close a branch remains a commercial judgement for banks, the impact on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services, including specialist assistance for customers who need more help. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>99% of banks’ personal and 95% of banks’ business customers are now able to withdraw cash, deposit cash and cheques, and make balance enquiries at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. At Autumn Budget 2017, I wrote to the Post Office and UK Finance to ask them to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and SMEs. Government will have provided nearly £2 billion during the period 2011 to 2018 to maintain and modernise the Post Office network.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 118947 118952 119030 119033 question first answered 18/12/2017 17:36:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

805280

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Banks: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he last had discussions with the Scottish Government on the effect on local communities of the bank branch closures in Scotland recently announced by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	118952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>I discussed RBS Group’s recent branch closure announcement with the Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy on 4 December.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to improving access to financial services. While the decision to close a branch remains a commercial judgement for banks, the impact on communities must be understood, considered and mitigated where possible.</p><p> </p><p>The industry’s Access to Banking Standard, launched in May 2017, commits banks to ensure personal and business customers are better informed about branch closures and the reasons for them closing, along with the options they have locally to continue to access banking services, including specialist assistance for customers who need more help. The Access to Banking Standard is monitored and enforced by the independent Lending Standards Board.</p><p> </p><p>99% of banks’ personal and 95% of banks’ business customers are now able to withdraw cash, deposit cash and cheques, and make balance enquiries at a Post Office counter via its network of 11,600 branches. At Autumn Budget 2017, I wrote to the Post Office and UK Finance to ask them to raise public awareness of the banking services available at the Post Office for individuals and SMEs. Government will have provided nearly £2 billion during the period 2011 to 2018 to maintain and modernise the Post Office network.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Stephen Barclay grouped question UIN 118947 118949 119030 119033 question first answered 18/12/2017 17:36:14 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford

805281

registered interest
date	12/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to reply my urgent correspondence of 1 December 2017 on my constituent Mr Levi Maynard, case id: 022516142.
tabling member constituency	Ross, Skye and Lochaber
tabling member printed	Ian Blackford
uin	118953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office MP Account Management Team replied to the email from the Hon Member about Mr Maynard on 14 December.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 19/12/2017 12:25:45 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4390 label Biography information for Ian Blackford