Gareth Thomas

Indeed, the FCA said something similar to me at a roundtable with some charities. What is clearly needed is the will to publish that data and to sort out the remaining gaps in the data. The banks’ suc

I welcome the Bill and commend both the Chancellor and, in particular, my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary for their commitment to modernising financial services. Like the hon. Member for Aberdeen N

One of the encouraging things in the financial inclusion strategy was a proposal to build a coalition of employers willing to offer a payroll deduction service to their employees to join and save with

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, who makes an important point about the need to do more to expand credit unions. It is for such businesses, and the communities that would benefit from other co-

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mike Martin). Perhaps because of the time limit, he did not dwell on the dismal economic inheritance that the Government were left by th

I congratulate the hon. Member for Chichester (Jess Brown-Fuller) in the usual way on securing this debate. I hope that she will not mind if I focus on the challenges around community policing in subu