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Commons Debate pack by Fintan Codd and Oliver Bennett. It was first published on Thursday, 9 May 2019. It was last updated on Friday, 17 May 2019.


Financial exclusion and the future of access to cash

Further information:

House of Commons Library, Bank branch and ATM statistics, 17 May 2019

Personal Finance Research Centre/University of Bristol, Mapping the availability of cash: a case study of Bristol's financial infrastructure, May 2019

House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, Consumers’ access to financial services, 13 May 2019

HM Treasury, Cash and digital payments in the new economy: summary of responses, 3 May 2019 [and original consultation paper, March 2018]

House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy, Time for a Strategy for the Rural Economy, 27 April 2019 [section on Access to Finance]

HM Treasury, The Access to Cash Review – Final Report, March 2019

House of Commons Scottish Affairs Select Committee, Access to Financial Services inquiry, 2017-19

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, A Cashless Society in 2018: The Cashless World in Motion review, February 2019 [see pp54-62 for review of developments in the UK in 2018]

House of Commons Library, The decline of ATMs? 17 December 2018 [includes constituency-level data]

House of Commons Library, Impact of ATM closures on towns and communities, 30 November 2018

House of Commons Library, Financial Inclusion (Exclusion), 19 December 2017

House of Lords Select Committee on Financial Exclusion, Tackling financial exclusion: A country that works for everyone? 25 March 2017 and Government response, 8 November 2017

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Cashless Society: Benefits, Risks and Issues (Interim Paper), November 2017

 

Websites

Campaign for Community Banking Services (archived website) – campaign wound up in 2016

Cash essentials [web platform for information about the future of cash – includes links to news and research]

 Financial Inclusion Commission [independent UK organisation made up of Parliamentarians and experts]

 Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Cashless Society Working Party

 LINK – Financial Inclusion Programme [cash machine network]

 Which? Freedom to pay. Our way Campaign

 

 

 

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Secondary information

Type
Research briefing
Reference
CDP-2019-0115 
Related items
Financial Exclusion: Access to Cash
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons
Subjects
Access Disadvantaged Closures Banks Cash dispensing Money Access to Cash Review
Published by
Business and Transport Section
House of Commons Library
Link
View this Research briefing on researchbriefings.parliament.uk