Question follow-through · 117464
Payments: Fees and Charges
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support competition in the payments market to reduce fees for small businesses.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 9 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support competition in the payments market to reduce fees for small businesses.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the importance of ensuring that the cost of accepting payments, including cards, is fair to all parties, and that our payment systems work for all. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), the UK’s economic regulator for payments, ha...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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