On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:18:33 +0000, Alang
wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:20:07 +0000, Alex Heney
>wrote:
>
>
>>>Not directly, but the treasury refer to it with lots of other
>>>information on those without bank accounts in this document;
>>>
>>>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmtreasy/1717/1717.pdf
>>
>>Thanks. An interesting report.
>>
>>But one important fact in relation to these figures is that the 8% of
>>households without a bank account was from the 2002-2003 year - so 5
>>years ago now.
>>
>>It was reported that the government wanted "significant progress"
>>towards halving this number by 2006, but doesn't quantify "significant
>>progress (because the government didn't), nor have any later data to
>>show what progress may have been made.
>>
>>I do think it likely that the figure is significantly lower now.
>>
>>That report refers to the Family Resources Survey, for which the
>>latest currently available online is for 2005-2006
>>
>>
>>According to this, 96% of households now have access to what they call
>>a "direct payment account". Which appears to confirm that the number
>>without access to an account has reduced significantly since 2002/3.
>
>
>Between 96 and 97% have some type of account.
>That's still possibly up to a million households without any sort of
>account. (Difficult to find firm figures for actual households in UK.
>Seems to be over 25 million)
Agreed.
But then if the original article from CAB had said 1 in 25 households,
I would have found that much easier to believe.
Although IIRC I initially said I could believe 2-3% - when I had
misread the original as 12%. But 4% isn't all that much more than the
2-3% I might have expected.
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