Question follow-through · 904250
Financial Services: Disadvantaged
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress she has made on developing a national financial inclusion strategy.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress she has made on developing a national financial inclusion strategy.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
I have convened a Financial Inclusion Committee of industry and consumer representatives to develop the Government’s Financial Inclusion Strategy, which will be published later this year. The strategy will tackle a range of issues, including access to aff...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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