House of Commons - Credit Unions in Scotland - Scottish Affairs Committee

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Session 2008-09
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Scottish Affairs Committee - Second Report
Credit Unions in Scotland

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 6 May 2009.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Report
Summary
1 Introduction

Background
What are credit unions?
Funding
UK Government funding
Scottish Executive funding
Local authority funding
Recent developments

2 The role of credit unions in the current economy

Interest rate capping

3 Deregulation
4 Credit union services

Unified services
Mergers
Access to services
Current accounts
Wider services

5 Government funding
6 A central credit union
7 Financial education
8 Conclusion
Conclusions and recommendations
Annex: note of visit
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Wednesday 9 July 2008
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Written Evidence

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Prepared 18 May 2009