Question follow-through · 10481
Banking Hubs: Standards
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of banking hubs with bank branches.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of banking hubs with bank branches.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to supporting the financial services industry’s roll-out of 350 banking hubs by the end of this Parliament, and industry agreed with my predecessor that they would achieve this. Over 275 hubs have been announced so far, and mor...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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