Question follow-through · 20063

Direct Debits

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle the potential misuse of customer bank details by merchants when setting up direct debits.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 13 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2024
Answer: 18 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help tackle the potential misuse of customer bank details by merchants when setting up direct debits.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government believes there should be strong protections in place to ensure that customers can make payments in a secure and informed way. There are already such protections in place for Direct Debit payments under the rules made by its operator, Pay.UK...

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