Question follow-through · 111636
Department for Work and Pensions: Credit Unions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.
11 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
DWP has existing arrangements with three of the UK’s leading credit unions: COMMSAVE, HEY (Hull and East Yorkshire) and VOYAGER.The payroll savings scheme with credit unions is part of DWP’s wider financial wellbeing toolkit, which is readily available to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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