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What progress has been made to reduce financial exclusion?

13 September 2016

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In the first of two evidence sessions, the Select Committee on Financial Exclusion considers if progress has been made since the report of the Financial Inclusion Commission was published in March 2015. A second session considers the impact of recent welfare and pension reforms upon financial exclusion.

Witnesses

Tuesday 13 September, Committee Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

At 10.40am

  • Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chair, Financial Inclusion Commission
  • Sir Brian Pomeroy CBE, President, Financial Inclusion Commission
  • Chris Pond, Vice-Chair, Financial Inclusion Commission

At 11.40am

  • Philip Connolly, Policy and Communications Manager, Disability Rights UK
  • Lucy Malenczuk, Senior Policy Manager, Age UK

Possible questions

  • What, from your experience, are the causes of financial exclusion?
  • In understanding and addressing financial exclusion should particular groups – such as the most vulnerable or the chronically excluded - be targeted or prioritised? If so, how?
  • How effective is the current regulatory regime in tackling financial exclusion? Are further regulatory powers or interventions required and, if so, what form might these take?
  • How will the recent pension reforms affect levels of financial exclusion?
  • Does technology represent an opportunity or threat to the financially excluded?

Further information

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