PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
CHEQUE PAYMENTS (13 July 2010)

That this House notes with concern that high street banks are planning to stop accepting cheques despite protest from consumer groups and businesses; further notes that nearly four million cheques are still being written each day and that many people still prefer to pay for goods and services in this way; is concerned that the Payments Council which represents the major banks voted in December 2009 to scrap the cheque as a method of payment; believes many people, particularly the elderly, would be inconvenienced as a result; calls on the Government to remind the banks that they exist to serve customers and not the other way round; and urges the banks to reconsider their proposal to abolish the cheque.

Sponsored by:
Baroness Burt of Solihull (Liberal Democrat)