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HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI will, but I just want to make the point that was well made by my constituent in her email. She is a customer of Lloyds in Blandford and she does online banking, but during the…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. When a bank closed in my constituency on an earlier occasion, I remember it telling me, “If customers need to talk to an actual person,…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasLet me make a little progress and I will give way first to my hon. Friend and then to the hon. Gentleman. At the heart of everything this place does, we must think about social…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI am grateful to my hon. Friend. His constituency, and indeed a lot of our coastal communities, will have that profile of constituents that is older and more settled, and they…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasLet me just finish this point. That was the first promise, but it seemed to disappear quite quickly. Then the Post Office came in, and then there seemed to be an over-reliance on…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI agree absolutely. A more sensitive and refined definition of the hub-and-spoke model is also needed. If we look at the resident catchment of a market town, we can construct a…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI agree entirely with my hon. Friend who represents Surrey and part of Hampshire. I would be happy for the Minister to write to me on this point if it is easier, but it strikes me…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasLet me give way to the hon. Member for North Shropshire (Helen Morgan), then I will give way to my hon. Friend.24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. Again, I hope that any of the banks or regulators who may listen in or read the report will understand that this is not an issue that divides by…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because again she enhances and underlines the argument that I have been deploying, and for which colleagues across the House have been kind enough…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI give way to the hon. Member for North Northumberland, which really is a rural area.24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. In many respects— [ Interruption. ] I am beginning to get paranoid; I hear voices. He is absolutely right to make the point that he does. I…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasFor a second time, of course.24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasThe hon. Lady is again absolutely right. Surely it makes good commercial sense for high street banks, as we used to call them—increasingly, they are not particularly high street…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasThe hon. Lady is right. The cynic might suggest that the opening hours were set in order to try to deliberately reduce footfall—possibly. That might be hugely cynical, and if it…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasWho could refuse?24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasI admire my right hon. Friend’s perseverance in ever trying to change the signatory on a charity bank account. People have died of boredom and exasperation trying to do it. A…24 Feb 2025HANSARD Bank Closures: Rural AreasThe hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. I think the trend has been pretty clear, and the goalposts have moved. From late 2008 or 2009 through to about 2015 or 2016, I think…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDraft Airports Slot Allocation (Alleviation of Usage Requirements etc.) Regulations 2025Congratulations.27 Jan 2025HANSARDClimate and Nature BillTo my neighbour from West Dorset? Of course.24 Jan 2025