Cash Machine Charges

EDM number 1284 in 2002-03, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 21/05/2003.

That this House condemns the sharp rise in the number of cash machines which charge customers for removing their money; notes that convenience machines placed at locations such as supermarkets, pubs, post offices, factories, amusement parks and service centres charge customers between ú1.25 and ú1.50 for each transaction, with the number of machines charging rising from 3.2 per cent. in February 2000 to 24.5 per cent. in February 2003; further notes that overall this is costing an estimated ú115 million a year hitting those on low incomes hardest; and calls on the firms operating the machines to remove these charges.

This motion has been signed by a total of 79 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.