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Closure Of Barclays Bank Abercynon Branch

EDM number 519 in 1999-00, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 13/03/2000.

That this House condemns the decision by Barclays Bank plc to close its Abercynon branch in South Wales on 7th April; notes with concern that Barclays Bank customers will now have to undertake a two hour round trip to reach the nearest Barclays branch; recognises that most Abercynon residents do not have access to Internet banking and cannot afford to travel to branches outside the area; notes that Abercynon has no cash point facilities; deplores the fact that Barclays is to carry out this closure without consulting its Abercynon customers and without undertaking an assessment of the impact on the local economy or the local community; notes that Barclays Bank plc's 1999 post tax profits were ú2.5 billion and that it has announced a nation-wide branch closure programme to increase profits by ú1 billion and to double returns for shareholders by 2003; calls upon Barclays to recognise their social responsibility to their customers and to withdraw the threat of closure; believes that Barclays branch closures are leading to financial exclusion for thousands which, in turn, exacerbates social exclusion; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to undertake urgent discussions with Barclays and the other major high street banks in an effort to persuade them to end their ill-conceived, socially divisive and economically damaging programmes of branch closures.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Clwyd13/03/2000Cynon ValleyLabourProposed
Julie Morgan13/03/2000Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams13/03/2000ConwyLabourSigned
Win Griffiths13/03/2000BridgendLabourSigned
Llin Golding13/03/2000Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Geraint Davies13/03/2000Croydon CentralLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd13/03/2000Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
John Hayes13/03/2000South Holland & The DeepingsConservativeSigned
Brian Sedgemore13/03/2000Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty13/03/2000Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Bill Michie14/03/2000Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Simon Thomas14/03/2000CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Norman Godman14/03/2000Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Andrew George14/03/2000St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn14/03/2000Islington NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones14/03/2000CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jon Owen Jones14/03/2000Cardiff CentralLabour Co-operativeSigned
Alan Simpson14/03/2000Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice14/03/2000PendleLabourSigned
Harry Barnes15/03/2000North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Paul Marsden15/03/2000Shrewsbury & AtchamLabourSigned
Alice Mahon15/03/2000HalifaxLabourSigned
Lynne Jones15/03/2000Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner15/03/2000BolsoverLabourSigned
Allan Rogers15/03/2000RhonddaLabourSigned
Eric Illsley15/03/2000Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Martin Salter16/03/2000Reading WestLabourSigned
Alan Hurst16/03/2000BraintreeLabourSigned
John Cummings16/03/2000EasingtonLabourSigned
John Austin16/03/2000Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Dafydd Wigley16/03/2000CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Gordon Marsden17/03/2000Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington17/03/2000Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis20/03/2000Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Crausby21/03/2000Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Ann Cryer21/03/2000KeighleyLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe24/03/2000Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Angela Smith28/03/2000BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones28/03/2000Ynys MPlaid CymruSigned
Roseanna Cunningham28/03/2000PerthScottish National PartySigned
Jackie Lawrence30/03/2000Preseli PembrokeshireLabourSigned
David Borrow30/03/2000South RibbleLabourSigned
Huw Edwards03/04/2000MonmouthLabourSigned
John Cryer05/04/2000HornchurchLabourSigned
John McDonnell06/04/2000Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned

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