Question follow-through · 61780
Bank Cards: Fees and Charges
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with (a) the Payment Systems Regulator and (b) representatives of the payments industry on merchant interchange fees.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 27 Jun 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with (a) the Payment Systems Regulator and (b) representatives of the payments industry on merchant interchange fees.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jun 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to ensuring a world-leading payments ecosystem that meets the needs of all businesses and consumers, as reflected in the National Payments Vision. This includes support for regulation of interchange fees. Government ministers a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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