Question follow-through · 83719
Community Development Finance Institutions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to require (a) banks and (b) other major financial services providers to invest in community development finance institutions.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Communities and local government
- Banks and Community Development Finance Institutions · 24 Oct 2025
- Credit: Community Development · 30 Oct 2025
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to require (a) banks and (b) other major financial services providers to invest in community development finance institutions.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises the vital role Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) play in providing affordable credit to underserved consumers and businesses. To support this, in November 2024, the British Business Bank launched the Community EN...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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