Question follow-through · 18436
Financial Services: Disadvantaged
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) banks and (b) financial services providers increase access to (i) products and (ii) services through the Financial Inclusion Strategy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ensure that (a) banks and (b) financial services providers increase access to (i) products and (ii) services through the Financial Inclusion Strategy.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
On 5 December, I convened a Financial Inclusion Committee which has been established to tackle the problems of financial exclusion. Through this committee, I will work with consumer groups and industry on the development of a Financial Inclusion Strategy....
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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